A10446

Cut Steel Chatelaine and Accessories

£490.00

Circa   1760
A mid 18th Century cut steel chatelaine with oval enamel portrait.
Dimensions   40 x 126 mm

Out of stock

Description

A mid 18th Century cut steel chatelaine with oval enamel portrait.  Openwork steel buckle decorated with faceted cut steel pins supporting six cut steel chains.  The centre two for the watch and the others for accessories.  Three  accessories attached – one a gilt filigree owl, a stone set gilt seal inscribed “Mary” and a very unusual small pen knife in the form of an underpainted horn covered shoe.  Sprung cut steel latches with threaded locking collars, one damaged.