A rare silver-gilt and niello cartographic snuff box, Feodor Bushkovskii, Velikiy Ustyug, 1819

A rare silver-gilt and niello cartographic snuff box, Feodor Bushkovskii, Velikiy Ustyug, 1819

rectangular, the lid with the map of the Vologodsk Guberniya, inscribed with names of neighbouring areas and kilometres, the reverse with a demographic table, gilt interior, struck inside with maker's mark, dated, 84 standard

length 9cm, 3 1/3in.