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TWO SMALL GOLD BOXES WITH JEWELLED CIPHERS, PARIS, CIRCA 1825 AND CIRCA 1870
Auction Closed
July 14, 12:35 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
TWO SMALL GOLD BOXES WITH JEWELLED CIPHERS, PARIS, CIRCA 1825 AND CIRCA 1870
the first of canted rectangular form, engine-turned within chased scroll borders, the lid later applied with a initial L set with diamonds and rubies below a royal crown, perhaps intended for Louis XVIII, the interior with initials: MR, maker's mark of C.C. Petschler, unofficial bear's head and official 3e titre, Paris, 1819-1838; and a circular tinder box / lighter of circular form, the lid applied with a rose diamond cipher below an Ottoman crown, maker's mark of Gustave Camproger overstriking post-1838 3e titre, the interior of the lid engraved: Laurent Palais Royal 54
6cm., 2¼in.; 4.5cm., 1¾in.
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According to the Ordonnance du Roi of 19 June 1822, which granted the right of domicile to ‘Chrétien-Charles Petschler, bijoutier’, then resident in Paris, he was born on 26 December 1780 in Nouvelle-Brandebourg, in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. It is probable that he was a son or near relative of the Neubrandenburg silversmith Gottlieb Joseph Petschler (1748-1822), originally from Norköping in Sweden, two of whose sons also became silversmiths. It is not known where C.C. Petschler received his training but it is evident that he had already arrived in Paris before 17 October 1807 when he was admitted to hospital in Paris in dire straits with erysipelas (listed as ‘Charles-Chrétien Petschler, agé de 25 ans, bijoutier’). Petschler entered this mark for bijouterie; joaillerie: la parure, la boîte or, etc. from rue de l'Arbre-Sec in 1814.
For another example of the tinder box, evidently created as gifts, see Eve Enchères, Paris, 11 December 2009, lot 388.