A GEORGE IV ENAMELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND PLATINUM PRESENTATION BOX...

Rectangular with slightly concave sides engine-turned with grain rice pattern, the cover applied with the Star of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick with the mottos PENINSULA and QUIS SEPARABIT and the arms of Hamilton with the motto THROUGH, and engraved below on a phylactery with the inscription THE OFFICERS OF THE FOURTH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARD TO THEIR MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND MAJOR HAMILTON, on matted ground, the borders chased in high relief with Scottish thistle, Irish clover leaves and English roses, marked in the cover and base: 18 carat and maker, on the flange: town, standard, date-letter (g), 18 carat and maker
35⁄8 in. (8.5 cm.) long
Gross weight: 5 oz. 9 dwt. (171 gr.)

Provenance
Presented to Major Patrick Hamilton (b.c.1779-1824) of the 4th Irish Dragoon Guards, by his brother officers on his retirement from the regiment in 1822.
Frederick Charles Schweder (1867-1938), stockbroker and collector of 47 Lowndes Square, London SW1.
F. C. Schweder; Sotheby’s, London, 19 May 1938, lot
with A La Vieille Russie, New York.