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A late Victorian silver cigarette case together with an Arts & Crafts scroll pierced white metal caddy spoon and a silver plated pill box circa 1900 (3) *** The cigarette case was a gift to Mrs Joy Watkin (wife of the Doctor for the British Council in Calcutta and the official Doctor for the Royal Families of Sikkim and Bhutan, from Phuntsok Gelek Rabten the son of the "old king of Ling" Lingtsang Gyalpo Wangchen Tenzin (1872-1942) for facilitating the escape of one of his sons from Tibet into India.The Alain Rouveure Collection

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