THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD PENCIL-HOLDER
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A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD PENCIL-HOLDER
probably Geneva, circa 1860
Cylindrical pencil holder with sliding ring to move the pencil in- and outside the cylinder, engraved with scrolls partially enamelled in translucent brown, interwoven with white-bordered translucent blue enamel bands, the scrolling finial inset with a rectangular bloodstone plaque -- 100 mm long
probably Geneva, circa 1860
Cylindrical pencil holder with sliding ring to move the pencil in- and outside the cylinder, engraved with scrolls partially enamelled in translucent brown, interwoven with white-bordered translucent blue enamel bands, the scrolling finial inset with a rectangular bloodstone plaque -- 100 mm long