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A Guide to the mediaeval room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room; (1907)

British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 308

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GLOSSARY 260 in the eighteenth century they were made in England, and commonly ornamented with embossed subjects, portraits of the popular iiero Frederick the Great being especially numerous (examples in Table-Case H, fig. 183). Tohacco-stoppers of the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries with… … Fig. 183. — Brass tobacco-box of the oightoenth century, with portrait of Frederick the Great. generally either carved in wood or cast in brass, have been pre- served in considerable numbers (fig. 184); they were sometimes combined with finger-rings, in much the same manner as the private keys of…

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