Snuffbox

D. B., Stettin, Germany

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Appreciated for its intense blue color enriched with shimmering bits of pyrite, lapis lazuli was long mined exclusively in Afghanistan until deposits were discovered in the Ural Mountains of Russia during the eighteenth century. The frame of this snuffbox consists of four different tones of gold, which were achieved by alloying the gold with small amounts of other metals.

Snuffbox, D. B., Stettin, Germany, Gold, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, ivory, German, Berlin

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Snuffbox, D. B., Stettin, Germany, Gold, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, ivory, German, Berlin
Snuffbox, D. B., Stettin, Germany, Gold, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, ivory, German, Berlin
Snuffbox, D. B., Stettin, Germany, Gold, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, ivory, German, Berlin

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