Now I do not know for what purpose that was for and it very well may be a "cigar server" ..... rather than calling it a "cigar holder".
If so, then a butler would have placed cigars and a lit candle in it, then it could have been "rolled round the table" from guest to guest, and the "box" would have held a fancy "cigar snipper" (to snip the end off cigar) ........ but that is just a guess.
Circa 1890's was the Victorian age of "pomp and ..... silver" with butlers and maids and everything imaginable for "serving and eating" made from silver/silver plate.
I mean like they had forty-eleben types of spoons n' forks, one for bout each different food that was served.
So Philistry, I suggest you "search" for Victorian era serving pieces.
