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TWO LOUIS XVI ENGINE-TURNED GOLD SEALING-WAX CASES
the longer one by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Choconain-Delaunay, Paris, 1787, with the charge and discharge of Henry Clavel, the other by Pierre-François Roger, Paris, 1789, with the charge and discharge of Jean-François Kalendrin, and the "grosse récense" of the Year VI of the French Revolution
Two gold étuis-à-cire of rectangular section with canted corners, with plain bases, the raised covers topped by rosettes, the longer one with panels of vertically reeded engine-turning scattered with flowerheads and pellets, the other one with diagonal bands of pellets on a vertically reeded guilloché ground -- 92 and 86 mm resp.
(36 gr.) (2)
the longer one by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Choconain-Delaunay, Paris, 1787, with the charge and discharge of Henry Clavel, the other by Pierre-François Roger, Paris, 1789, with the charge and discharge of Jean-François Kalendrin, and the "grosse récense" of the Year VI of the French Revolution
Two gold étuis-à-cire of rectangular section with canted corners, with plain bases, the raised covers topped by rosettes, the longer one with panels of vertically reeded engine-turning scattered with flowerheads and pellets, the other one with diagonal bands of pellets on a vertically reeded guilloché ground -- 92 and 86 mm resp.
(36 gr.) (2)