Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A rare Victorian silver castle top card case by Nathaniel Mills, of rectangular form, chased and embossed with floral and foliate decoration, the front with a raised depiction of Buckingham Palace in 1847, showing the Marble Arch to the forecourt, as it appeared before Edward Blore’s alterations completed in 1850, when the courtyard of the Palace was enclosed and the Marble Arch was moved to its present location, the reverse centred with a cartouche engraved ‘A.S.Green’, maker’s mark, hallmarked for Birmingham 1847, dimensions 87 x 60 x 12mm. £800-£1,200