A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine consisting of four smaller rows

consisting of four smaller rows graduating to three deeper rows each with grooved borders

Length: 31 inches

probably twenty or so years in vintage and it is well executed

*This scheme of quarterings presume that Annie’s father was member of the family of Grant of Rothiemurchus in the County of Elgin

coloured lamps were suspended from the ceiling

A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine consisting of four smaller rowsOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1881 Width: 2. 5 Height: 1. 5 The Victorian silver 'trick' vesta case by William Summers of London, in 1881, the whole of oval form, the top with applied domed skeleton memento mori plaque, on an engine turned ground with invisible hinged cover, opened by pressing on one long edge, to a serrated striker plate to one side, the whole surviving from the high Victorian period. The vesta