Rare Antique Dutch 18th Century Brass and Copper Erotical Tobacco Box. SOLD


A good brass and copper engraved tobacco box of oval form with the rare hinged trapezoid brass lid engraved with two scenes. The first with a love couple, a standing cow and the woman with the Dutch text:

Deese dinge Ver-Wondere elck dat een Swarte koey Geeft witte Melck    These things wonders everyone that a black cow gives white milk. and the scenery of a fishing boat, two fishes, the man and a peeing girl and the text:

En de soute zee geeft soete vis en een jonge mijt  brak water pist.   And the salty sea gives sweet fish  and a young woman pees salty water.

The bottom engeved with  a woman, a leaving sailing vessel en two men with the text:

Soete lieve Neeltije, Geeft mijn u roosje, ik Geef u 2 peertjes Met een steeltje. Sweet lovely Neeltje , show me your little rose - I give you two little peaches with a litlle stem.

The copper sides with a running deer with hunting dog and hunter, the other side with a running hare and hunting dog.

 

The Netherlands, 

About 1740.

 

Height:    4 cm     (1.6 inches.)

Length: 15,8 cm. (6.2 inches.)

Width:     4,7 cm. (1,9 inches.)

Weight: 183 grams.

 


Reference
B.159
Price
sold
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