A Group of Four Dutch Brass Tobacco Boxes

(4) engraved brass boxes to include: a late18th-early 19th century box with heraldic lion; a circa 1800 box featuring vignettes of figure heads for European countries to one side and cityscapes of their corresponding capitals to the verso; a mid-to late 18th-century hinged box with genre scenes and inscriptions to each side; and a hinged box dated 1711 with biblical scenes and inscriptions.

Longest 4 3/4 in.

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Box with heraldic lion and box dated 1711 with areas of oxidation to crevices; rubbing to inscriptions; box with vignettes with scattered small surface scratches to exterior; box with genre scenes with minor dents to interior.