Handcrafted Sterling Silver and Ebony Pill Box by Glanville-Anson
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Glanville-Anson, Vanessa, Australia, b.1951, a sterling silver and ebony pill box, handcrafted, freeform elongated vessel, ovoid aperture revealing leather lined interior and finished with a carved ebony lid with applied silverwork. Total weight: 55.1gms.
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.
- Ebony - Ebony is a close grained timber, black in colour. It has a fine texture which can be polished to a high gloss, making it suitable for venereering, inlay and stringing and its use as solid timber is resticted to small decorative items and ornamental decoration, such as chess pieces and musical instrument parts. The term "ebonised" means "faux ebony", timber that has been darkened during the polishing process to resemble ebony.
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