Lot 701

A LOUIS-PHILIPPE PALAIS ROYAL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GILT-METAL MONOCULAR AND ANOTHER (4)

Coleridge Collection, The first spy-glass with five collapsible sections, 4cm wide; 5cm high; the second small magnifying glass with green paste mounts, 2.5cm diameter; Together with a pair of silver mounted mother-of-pearl pill pots, French, probably mid-19th Century, 5cm diameter

Estimate: £150 - £200
Hammer price: £190
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Provenance

The Anthony & Marietta Coleridge Collection

The two monoculars acquired from Mary Wise, 2013.

The two pill mounts acquired from The Collection of the Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel, Christie’s London, November 2007, lot 518.  

Condition Report:

Magnifying glass - One green stone with small hole to the mount around it.

One mother-of-pearl box - flaking to the inside of the base. 

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