Superb bag briefcase certainly farmers * general, leather and gilt bronze lock triangle to 5 notches, antique eighteenth century.
This bag is in its own juice, it has undergone some uses of time. The lock 5 has notches triangle closure, it works.
A report: many accidents and wear on the leather, but look at the pictures.
* Under the Ancien Régime, the general farmers were those who wanted to farm or lease public revenues, especially when compounds of the size of the salt tax (the tax on salt), the tobacco tax, grants etc.. They were a privileged partnership, the general farm that long counted 40 members, and was then raised to 60. They got rich quickly. Appointment depended on the Minister of Finance, and most often the favorite character of minister received a jar of wine considerably. The institution of general farmers back to Philippe le Bel. It gave rise to a multitude of abuses that took away the Constituent Assembly in 1790, removing farms.