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19TH CENTURY
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A mother-and-pearl and pinchbeck travel necessaire
19th Century
Of tapering form, consisting of two small boxes and a bigger one attached to a clip, all inlaid with mother-of-pearl plaquettes engraved with scrolls, fruit and birds, the biggest box containing a metal pair of scissors, an ivory measure, a pinchbeck spoon, a pinchbeck and mother-of-pearl knife, a mother-of-pearl and pinchbeck pencil, one of the small boxes with a pinchbeck thimble and spool
11cm. (4in.) wide (3)
19th Century
Of tapering form, consisting of two small boxes and a bigger one attached to a clip, all inlaid with mother-of-pearl plaquettes engraved with scrolls, fruit and birds, the biggest box containing a metal pair of scissors, an ivory measure, a pinchbeck spoon, a pinchbeck and mother-of-pearl knife, a mother-of-pearl and pinchbeck pencil, one of the small boxes with a pinchbeck thimble and spool
11cm. (4in.) wide (3)