English Silver Cigar Box Modeled as Tank

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reference number: ES_016

1979

silver

length: 30 cm; width: 11 cm

maker’s mark: RG (script)

city assay mark: leopard’s head in a shield for London

date letter ‘e’ for 1979

lion passant for sterling standard

A sterling silver cigar box modelled as a British chieftain tank, with a swivel top and a mobile barrel, the hinged top lifts to reveal two cedarwood-lined cigar compartments.

 

The Chieftain was the main British battle tank from the 1960s through to the 1980s, a development of its predecessor, the Centurion tank, it was introduced in 1966 and at that time had the most effective armour and most powerful main gun of any tank yet made. It was popular with several Middle Eastern countries.

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