A Victorian silver and glass part dressing table suite, James Vickery, London, 1860

comprising: four various rectangular boxes, with pierced and foliate engraved covers; two circular and one oval jars, in two sizes; and three rectangular cut-glass bottles with circular tops, all engraved with the monogram AFM below a ducal coronet; together with a French silver mounted seven piece part dressing suite, maker's mark JD(?), Paris, circa 1900, plain, comprising: three circular boxes, two rectangular boxes and a pair of square bottles, all with silver tops, engraved with the monogram HR below a princely crown (17)

The French silver set in good order, marks visible clearly on the two rectangular boxes. The glass in good order. The English set with clear marks to the boxes and two of the jars. the bottles with no marks visible. The bottles tired and worn, The glass chippy on some of the boxes.
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Seven pieces engraved with the crowned monogram of Prince Henry XIX Russia (1848-1904). The remaining ten are engraved with the crowned monogram of Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1873-1969), who married Victoria Princess of Russia in 1917.