(Robert FULTON) Papier-mâché snuff box, 82 mm. (3 3/4 in.) diam. 26 mm. (1 in.) high, bearing a finely painted portrait of Fulton accomplished on the lid after Benjamin West’s 1806 portrait. In the background is a faint depection of Fulton’s 1804 torpedo in action againt Boulogne Harbor in France. (Fulton would offer a public demonstartion of his invention in New York Harbor in 1807 destroying a derelect brig.) Identified on the interior of the lid in yellow paint, “Robert Fulton”.

Rare. An attractive piece celebrating one of the great inventors of the industrial revolution. We have encountered only one other example of this portrait accomplished on a snuff box.

Small chip on interior lip of box as shown, some spotting and typical to lid and some crazing and surface wear as expected.

(EXA 5093) $1,450