a modestly decorated antique Georgian tobacco box. an accomplished jazz musician

an accomplished jazz musician

32 inches nape to cuff

green pictorial cloth binding gilt lettering and gilded edges

on the 25th of august 1875

an antique ship in a box of a passenger steam/sailing ship of the type commonly seen around 1870

a modestly decorated antique Georgian tobacco box. an accomplished jazz musiciana modestly decorated antique Georgian tobacco box of irregular octagon form, cast with a frieze of passementerie in relief around the uppermost edge and the base, the domed cushioned lid with decorated finial in the form of an african man likely to be a black Virginian. length 130mm width 95mm height to top of finial 140mm the demand for a box capable of retaining moisture in processed tobacco grew in the Georgian times with the increase in popularity