Oak box with mementos or Jan van Speijk Box from Van Speyk, Wooden box with hinged lid, the lid has a round golden box in which the tuft of hair and on which the exploding ship is engraved. The inside of the lid is ivory, painted in black with a snake that bites its tail and plant motifs like a wreath around the second circumscription: 'Van Speijk'. Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, Lelue, Antwerp, after 1831 - after 1832, wood (plant material), gold (metal), iron (metal), paper, felt (textile), ivory, engraving, h cm × w cm × d cm

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Oak box with mementos or Jan van Speijk Box from Van Speyk, Wooden box with hinged lid, the lid has a round golden box in which the tuft of hair and on which the exploding ship is engraved. The inside of the lid is ivory, painted in black with a snake that bites its tail and plant motifs like a wreath around the second circumscription: 'Van Speijk'. Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, Lelue, Antwerp, after 1831 - after 1832, wood (plant material), gold (metal), iron (metal), paper, felt (textile), ivory, engraving, h cm × w cm × d cm

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