Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 10 October 2016
English, Continental, Oriental and Cape Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
About this Item
A silver chatelaine, 18th century and later
the hook pierced with the initials 'F M I', suspending five chains hung with: a thimble in the form of a bucket, a pin wheel, a ribbon dispenser, an aide-memoire, a silver star, a pen-knife, a coin case, possibly Birmingham, 1899, and a circular disc inscribed 'Jane Nixon 1760', 205g all in,approximately 26,5cm long
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