A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine each surviving from mid-century China

each surviving from mid-century China

Frances Anne Marjoribanks Pinxit (Latin for ‘by’) lower right

for the shop window display of garments

to allow for the physical affects of the disease and surviving from the first decade of the twentieth century and probably France

A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine each surviving from mid-century ChinaOrigin: 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