The Stobwasser papier-mâché snuff box decorated with a view of the Palais-Royal, Paris c.1810 sold for £20,000 at Bamfords.
Economic stimulus packages are not a new phenomenon. Georg Siegmund Stobwasser (1717-76) was among the many craftsmen attracted to the Brunswick by the special privileges granted them in the city by Duke Karl I (1713-80) in the wake of the Seven Years’ War.