Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 16 Apr 2019

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λA Victorian silver gentleman's travelling dressing table set

£1,000 - £1,500 £2,100

λA Victorian silver gentleman's travelling dressing table set,

by Frances Douglas, London 1854/55, retailed by Lund, Maker, Cornhill and Fleet Street, London,

the covers with engraved foliate scroll and engine turned decoration, with vacant circular cartouches, glass bodies, comprising: a shaving brush, four cologne bottles, three toilet jars, and three toilet boxes, with a pair of ivory razors, and six further ivory and steel implements, including a corn knife, six ivory brushes, and an ivory handled shaving strop, in a fitted coromandel case, with brass banding, the interior of the cover with a leather-clad removable mirror and a stationary wallet, the bottles are set in two slide-action trays, the front with a secret drawer, with a key and leather storm jacket, length 33cm, height 21.5cm, approx. weighable 10oz.

 

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