A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine coloured lamps were suspended from

coloured lamps were suspended from the ceiling

Normally there would be two or three of these cartaglorias placed on the altar

There are knocks and chips that one would expect

*This scheme of quarterings presume that Annie’s father was member of the family of Grant of Rothiemurchus in the County of Elgin

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A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine coloured lamps were suspended fromOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1881 Width: 2. 5 Height: 1. 5 The Victorian silver 'trick' vesta case by William Summers of London, in 1881, the whole of oval form, the top with applied domed skeleton memento mori plaque, on an engine turned ground with invisible hinged cover, opened by pressing on one long edge, to a serrated striker plate to one side, the whole surviving from the high Victorian period. The vesta