ANTIQUE SILVER & COPPER EGW&S WEBSTER & SONS CIGARETTE BOX cheapest

Product Name: ANTIQUE SILVER & COPPER EGW&S WEBSTER & SONS CIGARETTE BOX cheapest
ANTIQUE SILVER PLATE COPPER EGW&S WEBSTER & SONS CIGARETTE BOX. ANTIQUE - EGW&S WEBSTER & SONS SILVER-PLATE COPPER REPOUSSE CIGARETTE BOX - RARE. • SILVER-PLATE COPPER REPOUSSE CIGARETTE BOX • RARE • FEATURES REPOUSSE PRESSED DESIGNS ON THE LID & AROUND THE SIDES OF THE BOX • WITH broken HINGED LID • Elizur G. Webster & Son founded the EGW&S Company in 1886, after about 26 years of working in the silver-plating business on Broadway, in New York City. His business specialized in the manufacturing of silver-plated products. In this design, as can be seen from the box's interior, the method of hammering from the inside onto the design mold, (on the exterior sides), created the embossed appearance, or repousse. • This cigarette box is in rough condition. Estimate its construction somewhere around the early cheapest 1900s. It has significate tinting on the finish & and the lid separated. There is cracking near the hinge area.