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The two men exchanged over 450 letters, now kept in the West Sussex Record Office. \n\r\nJoseph-Etienne Blerzy was apprenticed in 1750 and became a master after 18 years. He was last recorded in 1806 and by 1809, a new mark had been registered by his widow Victoire Boizot.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world’s great decorative art collections, including silver,  mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"A rectangular gold-mounted <i>verre églomisé</i> snuffbox with canted corners, the cover painted with a young girl <i>en déshabillé</i> holding a dove. The walls and base have emblems of love, each within a gilt border, on grounds painted in red, green and brown to imitate <i>guilloché</i> enamel. They are also gilded with foliage and wreaths. 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