Sold for:
5,310 CHF
5,310 CHF
“Ten Watch Keys & Cut Steel Chatelaine”” Swiss and French. Made in the late 18th and the 19th century. Fine, ten watch keys and a cut steel chatelaine with three keys and a seal fob. To be sold without reserve Notes Cut steel work developed in Russia but became very popular in France during the late 18th and early 19th Century. English jewellers also exported this very popular commodity and by the early 19th century Italy, Prussia, Spain, and Russia were also producing it. Cut steel jewellery was worn the Empress Josephine and was popular even to the point of being copied in silver.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
