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Snuff or Tobacco Box with Perpetual Calendar

Inventory Number 11509

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11509

Subject
Calendars
Item type
Object
Provenance
From Miss May Rathbone, High house. Keston, Hayes, Kent
Primary inscriptions
Regt Door Zee
Physical material
metal
Object type
Calendar
Dimensions
Height: 27mm Width: 155mm Depth: 53mm
Inventory No
11509

Description

Metal box with hinged lid in the shape of an elliptic cylinder. Engraved perpetual calendar on top of lid 1582. Inscriptions on lid, side and underside.

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