Exceptional heavy ornamental silver casket. Rectangular... Lot 8

Exceptional heavy ornamental silver casket. Rectangular body with indented straight wall and canted corners, supported by four fully sculpted reclining lions. Hinged flat lid. The flared corners are shaped like crowned frog heads. The body wall and lid decorated with a total of 29 different embedded coins and medals from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century, e.g. a Gdansk thaler with profile depiction of Sigismund III, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, a so-called convention thaler of the German principality Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1791, an Indian rupee from 1893 with a profile depiction of Queen Victoria, a medal from 1894 for the 11th German Bundesschießen in Mainz, a medal from 1894 for the German National Shooting in Mainz, and a medal from 1894 with a profile depiction of Queen Victoria. German Federal Shooting in Mainz, a commemorative medal for the marriage of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1901 to Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and a medal of recognition from the Flora Horticultural Society in Dresden circa 1900. The interstices decorated with engraved leafy vines, flowers and architectural elements in relief. On the canted corners also four applied coins with heraldic representations. On the front a commemorative medal of the Great Academic Art Exhibition Berlin of 1887 with hinge as a cover for a small lock. Inside gilded. Key missing. Gest. 800. Weight ca. 2400 g. H. 12 cm. 25 cm x 19 cm. An exceptional, heavy silver casket with inset coins and medals from the 17th C. to the beginning of the 20th C.; Gilt inside. Key missing. Standard mark 800. German. Probably Hanau. 1st quarter 20th c.