An Irish Silver and Rosewood Travelling Necessaire for the Duke of Leinster, with retailer's mark of Fox of Dublin, circa 1815

of bolster shape, the wood case banded in pierced silver, opening at top and base with central lock, the front engraved with crest, coronet and motto, the top with the coat-of-arms, the base containing a pair of nesting oval beakers, a nest of four oval numbered boxes; the top fitted with the following: a pair of tortoiseshell razors numbered 1 and 2, a shaving brush with screw-on handle and scoop finial, a strop, a pair of silver-mounted scissors, a pair of tweezers with stirrup-shaped scraper, a bodkin, a double-ended toothpick, an oblong mirror with folding handle, a button hook by Richard Whitford, Dublin, 1816, retailed by Matthew West, a button loop, a file, a double-bladed knife with folding nail file and blade, a compass, a folding ivory rule, corkscrew and steel sheath, a pencil holder, a pen case with ink compartment, a cylindrical container with screw-on base and perforated top and gold seal L below a coronet, another cylindrical container with domed cap, mostly engraved with crest, coronet and motto

The arms are those of Fitzgerald under a duke's coronet for the Duke of Leinster, probably Augustus Fitzgerald, 3rd Duke (1791-1874).  He was the eldest surviving son of William Fitzgerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster and his wife Emilia.  He inherited his father's dukedom in 1804 and in 1818 married Lady Charlotte Augustus Stanhope, 3rd daughter of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington.  In 1813 he was chosen Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.  He was Lord Lieut. of Kildare 1831-74, Privy Council of Ireland and Britain 1831, Lord High Constable of Ireland at the coronations of William IV and Victoria.  His Kildare residence is the well-known Palladian house Carton, the largest house in Ireland, while his Dublin townhouse, Leinster House, designed by Richard Cassels and built in 1745, is the seat of the Irish government since 1922.

some iron parts rusty, the wood case with vertical age splits, otherwise good
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