AN ENAMEL, SEED-PEARL AND TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE PAPER KNIFE

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AN ENAMEL, SEED-PEARL AND TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE PAPER KNIFE
apparently unmarked, circa 1880

Of flattened parallel sided form, the handle enamelled in translucent pale blue over a diaper guilloché ground, each side applied with a band of chased laurel scrolls set at intervals with seed-pearls and with gadrooned gold mount of V form imitating the point of the blade, in fitted green leather case stamped Nobel & Co Pall Mall Safe Deposit Carlton St. Regent St. London

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