S/3689 Antique 18th Century Tobacco Cutter

A good quality and well used 18th century Georgian tobacco cutter, having a brass platform on a mahogany base. The hinged steel cutter, riveted to a swivelling end vertical support, has a mahogany handle, and would have been on a tobacconist's counter for cutting up pipe tobacco, or for use in a snuff grinder.

Sold 12 in. (30.5 cm.) Wide
4¾ in. (12 cm.) Deep
3¼ in. (8.5 cm.) High
English Circa 1780