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Silver & Elephant Toe Nail Cigar Dish by Peter Orr
Madras, India
circa 1855
length: 14cm, height: 4cm
This dish comprising fashioned from elephant's toe nail in which a high grade silver tray fits and resting on four silver ball feet, was designed as an ashtray for a cigar in
a gentleman's library. (The toe nail is horn-like and appears to have a varnish.)
The dish is the product of the Madras firm Peter Orr which operated from premises in Mount Street, Madras from around 1848. Peter Orr was an expatriate watchmaker
from Edinburgh.
The base is stamped 'ORR' and 'SILVER' and '9'.
Silver items by the firm were marked 'ORR' until around 1860 after which they were stamped 'P. Orr & Sons'.
Inventory no.: 628
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Silver & Elephant Toe Nail Cigar Dish by Peter Orr
Madras, India
circa 1855
length: 14cm, height: 4cm
This dish comprising fashioned from elephant's toe nail in which a high grade silver tray fits and resting on four silver ball feet, was designed as an ashtray for a cigar in
a gentleman's library. (The toe nail is horn-like and appears to have a varnish.)
The dish is the product of the Madras firm Peter Orr which operated from premises in Mount Street, Madras from around 1848. Peter Orr was an expatriate watchmaker
from Edinburgh.
The base is stamped 'ORR' and 'SILVER' and '9'.
Silver items by the firm were marked 'ORR' until around 1860 after which they were stamped 'P. Orr & Sons'.
Inventory no.: 628
This Item is available - Ask about this item