Victorian Sterling Silver Castle Top Card Case - Osborne House
Lovely Victorian sterling silver castletop card case, hallmarked Birmingham, 1852, FM (F.M Marson), of rectangular form with a hinged top cover, decorated with scene depicting Osborne house in East Cowes, Isle of Wight UK, set amongst stylised acanthus motifs within a shaped c-scroll border, with shield reserve verso, total weight 44gm, 3.35 in. x 2.56 in. note: Osborne house was the holiday home and rural retreat of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Acanthus - A stylized leaf motif, one of the primary decorative elements of classical Greek and Roman architecture, derived from the genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Mediterranean area. It is a common element in classical Greek and Roman design, and is often seen in Corinthian and Composite order columns and used as a decorative element in English, European and Australian furniture, particularly on the curve of a leg, and as decoration for a corbel.
- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 – 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - Verso - Verso is the "back" side of a sheet of paper, art work, coin or medal. The front side is "recto".
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