Early Victorian Small Lead Military Land Sea Victory Crimea War Tobacco Box

Beautiful small early Victorian antique lead military land sea victory Crimea war tobacco box in the highly sought after early Victorian era design. A fact about this piece which is so fascinating is that it was made from out of the lead cannonballs used in the Crimea War. This is such a beautiful antique tobacco storage box which has a recumbent lion on top and features that stand out and your will adore are the various scenes in low relief of British Naval ships & Military soldiers fighting on sea and land the Victorious British troops battle scenes shown on the 2 larger sides, the battle is of the Crimean War which started in 1853 and ended in 1856. The two small sides show the forts and ships at the naval action at Sebastopol. On top is the cover lid which has a recumbent Lion finial and also showing the battle names of Sebastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman and Alma. It is marked on the base with a registry mark and makers mark Stock & Son. So collectible and highly sought after. Handmade from lead. Origin from England. Sevastopol, sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history. The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856[4] between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia-Piedmont. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. The flashpoint was a disagreement over the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with the French promoting the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoting those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The churches worked out their differences with the Ottomans and came to an agreement, but both the French Emperor Napoleon III and the Russian Tsar Nicholas I refused to back down. Nicholas issued an ultimatum that demanded the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire be placed under his protection. Britain attempted to mediate and arranged a compromise to which Nicholas agreed. When the Ottomans demanded changes to the agreement, Nicholas recanted and prepared for war. In July 1853, Russian troops occupied the Danubian Principalities now part of Romania but then under Ottoman suzerainty). On 16 October [O.S. 4 October] 1853, having obtained promises of support from France and Britain, the Ottomans declared war on Russia. Led by Omar Pasha, the Ottomans fought a strong defensive campaign and stopped the Russian advance at Silistra (now in Bulgaria). A separate action on the fort town of Kars, in the Ottoman Empire, led to a siege, and an Ottoman attempt to reinforce the garrison was destroyed by a Russian fleet at the Battle of Sinop in November 1853. Fearing an Ottoman collapse, the British and French fleets entered the Black Sea in January 1854.They moved north to Varna in June 1854 and arrived just in time for the Russians to abandon Silistra. After a minor skirmish at Köstence (now Constanța), the allied commanders decided to attack Russia's main naval base in the Black Sea, Sevastopol, in Crimea. After extended preparations, allied forces landed on the peninsula in September 1854 and marched their way to a point south of Sevastopol after they had won the Battle of the Alma on 20 September 1854. The Russians counterattacked on 25 October in what became the Battle of Balaclava and were repulsed, but the British Army's forces were seriously depleted as a result. A second Russian counterattack, at Inkerman (November 1854), ended in a stalemate as well. By 1855, the Italian Kingdom of Sardinia sent an expeditionary force to Crimea sided with France, Britain and the Ottoman Empire. The front settled into the siege of Sevastopol, involving brutal conditions for troops on both sides. Smaller military actions took place in the Baltic (1854–1856; see Åland War), the Caucasus (1853–1855), the White Sea (July–August 1854) and the North Pacific (1854–1855). Sevastopol finally fell after eleven months, after the French had assaulted Fort Malakoff. Isolated and facing a bleak prospect of invasion by the West if the war continued, Russia sued for peace in March 1856. So sought after and desired. Viewings are welcome by appointment only for customer support please send us a message. We offer our clients exceptional professional customer service. Browse our exciting other Fine Art, antiques & collectibes available in our gallery.