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Matchsafes: Sterling Silver, Silver plated brass & Bakelite (7 items) [190070]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Tobacciana Start Price:160.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Matchsafes: Sterling Silver, Silver plated brass & Bakelite  (7 items)  [190070]
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Lot of 7 Antique Match Safes or Vestas. Vesta cases are small portable boxes used to keep matches dry. 4 Sterling silver match safes in 3 different styles -All are fancy Victorian Art Nouveau boxes with repousse baroque scroll design on 2 and a flower design on the 2 that are the same. All are smooth and blank in the center for personal engraving with hinged lids and a silver mark on the inside edge that the lid covers. 1 match safe in white with repousse pictorial of dancing couple on one side, finish is rubbing off to expose yellow metal alloy beneath. 1 smaller match safe with antique brass look that appears to have been silver plate but has rubbed off, marking on edge may indicate silverplate over brass? 1 Antique Bakelite advertising match safe with "Phospherine Brand Tablets" in circle on one side. Phosferine Tablets which were used as a “nerve cure” in the 20’s and 30’s. All are in very good to excellent condition. [