Tobacco box lid
Not on view
This is the cover only of a tobacco box, oblong with rounded ends. It is engraved with a perpetual calendar, flanked by leaf scrolls and two roundels. The roundel on the left shows a bust of Julius Caesar, inscribed: Voor krist 45 (45 B.C.). The right-hand medallion depicts Pope Gregory XIII and bears the date 1582. The lid carries a date on the bottom line of the calendar: 1729.
With lined rims. This is the cover of one of the earliest boxes made by Peter Holm. See the discussion of his work in the text, above.