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of square form, decorated all over with engine turned engraving within a Greek key style border, piano hinged spring loaded cover to match with cabochon sapphire thumbpiece, interior plain and polished with elasticated retainer and personal engraving, stamped '585', 8.5 x 8.5cm, 118.5g and presented in the original fabric pouch

Footnote: Provenance: Formerly the property of Gigi Crompton (Richter), thence by direct descent to the current vendor Louis Kuppenheim, (1824-1889) founded his company together with Heinrich Witzemann in 1854 in Pforzheim, Germany. Three years later he continued on his own as ‘Louis Kuppenheim’ and became a renowned gold and silver boxmaker and smallworker in Germany in the early 20th century. It has been suggested that Kuppenheim made pieces for major brands, including Cartier and Boucheron and the firm focused mainly on small objets, such as smoking requisites, stationery and vanity sets. Kuppenheim products were awarded a gold medal at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. At its height the company employed over 200 craftsmen in their Pforzheim factories and in addition to their Paris store, they had a thriving export business. As the Kuppenheims were of Jewish extraction, after 1933 their business declined and increasing Nazi persecution saw to the eventual closure of the business.

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