ANTIQUE 20thC AUSTRIAN SOLID SILVER & ENAMEL HUNTING CIGARETTE CASE c.1900

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Antique early 20th Century Austrian solid silver & enamel cigarette case, of slightly curved rectangular form with rounded corners, depicting horses saddled with hunters in scarlet coats, with dogs at the ready before a fox hunt. and richly parcel gilt interior. Hallmarked Austrian silver (900 standard), Vienna, circa 1900, Maker Scheid Georg Adam.

Reference Number: J9226

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DESCRIPTION

Antique early 20th Century Austrian solid silver & enamel cigarette case, of slightly curved rectangular form with rounded corners, depicting horses saddled with hunters in scarlet coats, with dogs at the ready before a fox hunt. and richly parcel gilt interior. Hallmarked Austrian silver (900 standard), Vienna, circa 1900, Maker Scheid Georg Adam.

Scheid completed a commercial apprenticeship until 1853 and subsequently worked in Pforzheim and Stuttgart. In 1858 he went to Vienna and worked there in the workshop of his future father-in-law, the silverware producer and jeweler Michael Markowitsch. Together they founded the OHG Markowitsch & Scheid in 1862. 20 years later, he left the thriving company and founded in 1882 under his name a jewelry factory and 1884 also the Georg Adam Scheid'sche Affinerie, from which later the Ögussa emerged. In 1911 he retired. His jewelery works bear the marks "G.A.S. " or "S.G.A. " and often the German hallmark "Crescent and Crown"

CONDITION

In Great condition - No damage, just general wear.

SIZE

Height: 9cm
Width: 7.5cm
Weight: 135g