Mahogany box with differens silver items like cutlery and jars with silver lids. Silver with marks of O Hasselquist and J N Segebaden, Jönköping, late 18th century.
Length 45 cm, width 36 cm, height 27 cm.
Gertrud Antoinette von Knorring (1740-1799) married to Christoffer Hedercrantz (1711-1778) bought Strömsberg estate 1773, thereafter inherited by the daughter Christina Hedercrantz (1761-1826) married to
Johan von Strokirch (1741-1800).
Thereafter inherited to the family von Essen to the present owner.
The complete box was preserved at Strömsberg estate until 1969 when the city of Jönköping acquired the estate.
Slott och Herresäten i Sverige, Malmö 1971: Småland; Strömsberg, ill. at p. 103.
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