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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Snuffbox with the Cooper Family Crest
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Mounted on the lid of this burl walnut snuffbox are a silver plate and thumbpiece. The plate, which bears the mark of the famous Boston silversmith Jacob Hurd, has been engraved with the Cooper family crest and the letters WC, the monograms of both William Cooper (1694-1743) and of his son of the same name (1721-1809). Samuel Cooper, a member of the next generation of Coopers and possibly an owner of this box, is reported "to have sacrificed his life to the inordinate use of Scotch snuff."
Inscription
Provenance
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William Cooper (1694-1743), Boston (?); William Cooper (1721-1809), Boston [date of acquisition unknown], by commission or inheritance; Samuel Cooper, Boston [date of acquisition unknown], by inheritance (?); Gebelein Silversmiths Incorporated, Boston [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1971, by purchase.
Geographies
USA, Massachusetts, Boston (Place of Origin)
Measurements
2 7/8 x 1 in. (7.3 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchased, 1972
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.1998