Lot 372
  • 372

A George III composite silver part toilet service, Mary Troby, London, 1805, and John Douglas, London, 1814

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Silver, Glass, Wood
  • the box 36.8cm., 14 1/2 in. long
comprising; circular box and two smaller, engraved with crests, largest 8.8cm., 3 1/2 in diameter, together with a George IV rectangular dressing table box, John & Archibald Douglas, London, 1824, with later wooden base; two Victorian silver mounted toilet bottles, both William Comyns, London, 1885, a silver-gilt mounted clothes brush, Mappin & Webb, London, 1909; together with a large red Cartier presentation box with gilt tooling

Condition

The boxes in good polished condition with a few small nicks, The rectangular box with later wooden body. The glass bottles in good order, the mounts a little bruised, one with catch missing, the other missing stopper.
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