Chatelaine jewelry sterling silver cherubs flowers Minerva Napoleon III nineteenth
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Chatelaine solid silver finely carved decoration of flowers and plant motif, punched Minerva (2nd title), goldsmith and punch initials G, Napoleon III nineteenth century.
This lady is in good condition. Punches a little worn.
A note: micro-scratches and light wear of time, see photos.
accessory-jewel worn at the waist, on the belt, whose ancestors Clavandier and troussoir the fourteenth century. It consists of a wide hook whose front face is decorated and several chains terminated with charms, scissors and / or a watch. In the first part of the eighteenth century, the lady became fashionable; at the end of the old regime, it is worn by both men and women, sometimes double, symmetrically on both sides of the pants or skirt. When moved neoclassical mode, which traces the size under the breast, the lady disappears almost completely, but it comes from 1820, when the size takes place. veture jewel in many regions and accompanying traditional dress, the lady offered money for the wedding was used to suspend the sewing instruments: that is why she sometimes carries the hook name scissors. After 1850 appear with the Gothic fashion, chatelaines armorial heraldic.
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