A VICTORIAN STERLING SILVER KINGS AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND PLAYING CARDS BOX, LONDON 1900 BY WILLIAM COMYNS

Rectangular form with hinged lid containing two complete decks of cards depicting historic British Royalty and associated nobility. The exterior with embossed decoration of a flower seller with a bag piper and a shepherdess, the lid engraved with initials in cypher. Gilt interior.

Height – 10 cm / 4 inches

Weight – 147 grams / 4.73 ozt

The cards depict:

Henry II (1133-1189)

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)

Edward III (1312-1377)

Philippa of Hainault (1313-1369)

Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376)

Edward of Westminster (1453-1471)

Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)

George III (1738-1820)

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)

George IV as Prince of Wales (1762-1830)