?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
Miniature Books: One in a Silver Case. Five 20th Century Examples.
Including: Four copies of De La Rue's Improved Condensed Diary and Engagement Book, "Finger Shape," the first, for 1902, housed in a hallmarked openwork silver filigree case decorated with eight cherubs amid stylized leaves and flowers, identical to one offered at Christie's in 2000 and attributed to William Comyns, Birmingham; the other three in full leather publisher's bindings with matching gilt-tooled cases, 1906, 1909, and 1914, each 3 x 1 in.; [and] The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: University Press; London: Henry Frowde, [n.d.], 64mo, in an ivorine binding with raised metal emblem on front board, 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (5)
See The Irene Winterstein Collection of Important Miniature Books, sale 8693, lot 155.
