please help with this sugar box ..

[charles-edwards]

here we do have a box - i know it is hamburg - but i do not know 1 ) who and 2 ) when ?
any could help please ?
thx C.E.

[byron mac donald]

Hello C.E.-

I don't have any information for you. I just wanted to say that the box you have is pretty, i have never seen a glass box with a key lock. Thanks for sharing.

Regards- Byron

[charles-edwards]

thx you - i bought 8 years ago for small money in dortmund in germany - it is in mint and pristine condition.. greetings, Charles Edwards

[wolfgang]

Hi C.E.,
Your lovely box is Hamburg by Johann Diedrich Laué, 1792-97 learning in the atelier of his father Johann Gottlieb Laué. 14.9.1808 he is inaugurated as master.
regards wolfgang

[charles-edwards]

thx for this wonderful information :-)
greeting CE.

[blakstone]

I can add that the Hamburg city mark with the letter "T" was the mark of assayer A. F. Lammatsch, who served from 1811 to 1828. Laué's death is not recorded, but he either died or retired by 1824, when his seat in the Hamburg guild was succeeded by J. J. Groth. So your sugar box dates sometime between 1811 and 1824.

[charles-edwards]

thx a lot - i think there is no better forum with no better informed members than this one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!