Featured A small 1800s Scottish horn and silver vinaigrette.

Bought this ravishing unmarked small thing on EBay France, described only as "boite en corne" aka horn box! No mention of repoussé silver nor stone, nor the pierced lid...
I hoped to get it for 50€ till the last minute... Happily I sniped high, because I wanted it badly... Ended at 200€
other hunters who stumble on bad descriptions
Found the exact same, 5cm too, for sale currently for........... 950£
https://www.gcohen.co.uk/vinaigrettes/scottish-silver-and-horn-vinaigrette-c1810.html
HAPPY!

 

It's stunning, kyra! Congrats

 

Amazing! Well done.

 

Fabulous !

 

Beautiful. I've heard stones in pieces like that referred to as cairn gorms. Is it hallmarked?

 

Great hunting!

 

well done Kyra!

 

Yup, Cairngorm. You stole that.

 

Congrats on the win!!!

That is a beauty for sure & it does not look to need any TLC on your part either.

 

& here I thought is was a Snuff Mull.............



Way to go all in on something you did not want to get away , Kyra !!!!!!

 

My heart missed a beat there, gorgeous! And a bargain.
Not all Scottish provincial silver is marked.

Cairngorm is the name for several stones found in the Cairngorms, a mountain range in Scotland. Cairngorms are mostly smokey quartz or citrine.

 

No mark at all... I suppose it is a cairngorm as, with the thistles, Scottish origin is sure

 

Yes it is definitely a cairngorm, and a traditional Scottish horn item, although these are usually snuff mulls, as komo said.

 

Haha! This one is a snuff mull!

 

Thank you!!! I have (somewhere...) a similar snuff mull!

Thank you all for thinking I did well at 200€, I never bought a vinaigrette, and really hoped to get it for 50€

For the kyratisation, it needed to get rid of all the dried polish residues, and the ring had been crushed flat

 

Well spotted.

 

Nicely done.

 

Really nice piece