A BLUE ENAMELLED SILVER-GILT ROYAL BOX  PROPERTY OF A NOBLE PRIVATE COLLECTOR Paris, France and Cairo, Egypt, dated 1939 Of deep circular form, the body and lid silver-gilt, the domed lid decorated in guilloche beneath a blue enamel, a band of lozenges to the border, the centre with applied silver-gilt 'F M' monogram surmounted by a Pahlavi crown surrounded by three five-pointed stars, maker's stamp Ah. Naguib Bey Le Caire - Paris to base, engraved inscription on the interior of lid in ductus ornamentalis, 12cm diam. and 316gr.  Provenance: Private noble family since at least the early 1980s. Inscription: Qasr Abedin Al Amer 24 Muharram 1358 - 'The glorious Abedin Palace 15th March 1939'. This fine box was commissioned to commemorate the royal wedding of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and Princess Fawzia, sister of King Farouk of Egypt. The wedding took place at the Abedin Palace in Cairo on 16th March 1939 and another ceremony was hosted at the Golestan Palace in Tehran on 25th April 1939. Princess Fawzia became an Iranian Princess (shahdokht) and national on 16th March. Several of these boxes had been commissioned to the fine Egyptian jeweller Naguib Bey from the royal family to be gifted to royals, nobles and important diplomats attending the wedding. For identical boxes sold at auction before, please see Bonhams London, 25 October 2007, lot 236 and 24 April 2018, lot 254.