Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 26 Oct 2016
λA Victorian silver and ivory desk seal
λA Victorian silver and ivory desk seal,
by Alfred Crichton, London 1874,
modelled as the bust of a man, the ivory head carved in two with one side showing the face and hair, the other side the skull and vertebrae, with a snake, the silver body with drapes and a lizard, the matrix carved engraved with an armorial, height 9.5cm.