Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 14 Jul 2021
λA Victorian silver travelling dressing table set
λA Victorian silver travelling dressing table set,
retailed by W. Leuchers, 18 Piccadilly, the silver by Thomas Johnson, London 1854,
the covers with crisp engraved overseas land and seascapes with buildings within foliate scroll decoration, later engraved 'Araby', comprising: a beaker, four bottles, a visiting card case, five toilet jars and boxes, an inkwell, a vesta box, an Aide memoire with ivory leaves, a pumice, a funnel, the front with two jewellery drawers, and a drop down tray with a medicine spoon, a pencil by Mordan, a thimble, two needle cases, a tape measure, a mother-of-pearl mirror, five mother-of-pearl-handled implements, a desk seals, two pairs of scissors and a manicure item, the inside of the velvet lined cover with a mirror, and with a velvet pen wipe, needle and pin case, in a fitted brass-bound coromandel case with two carrying handles, one glass base a.f, length 33cm, approx. weighable 15oz.