A good Victorian brass-bound coromandel oblong dressing case lined in blue plush and leather, containing fourteen cut-glass toilet jars and bottles, the silver-gilt lids engraved with birds and scrolling foliage and applied with vacant cartouches, with a matching tapering beaker, a pair of ivory-backed brushes, a coromandel mirror, a tongue scraper, a combination ear pick and pair of tweezers, and a tortoiseshell comb, the silver-gilt fittings by Reily & Storer, London 1846, the dressing case with outer canvas cover, Bramah lock and also applied with a gilt brass plate engraved with a retailers name: "Hunt & Roskell, Jewellers to the Queen, 156 New Bond Street, London" - length of dressing case 14¾in.

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A good Victorian brass-bound coromandel oblong dressing case lined in blue plush and leather, containing fourteen cut-glass toilet jars and bottles, the silver-gilt lids engraved with birds and scrolling foliage and applied with vacant cartouches, with a matching tapering beaker, a pair of ivory-backed brushes, a coromandel mirror, a tongue scraper, a combination ear pick and pair of tweezers, and a tortoiseshell comb, the silver-gilt fittings by Reily & Storer, London 1846, the dressing case with outer canvas cover, Bramah lock and also applied with a gilt brass plate engraved with a retailers name: "Hunt & Roskell, Jewellers to the Queen, 156 New Bond Street, London" - length of dressing case 14¾in.

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