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Dance card and purse.
They have a finely chiseled silver-gilt mount with scrolls and foliage.
The covers are decorated with gallant scenes and lake landscapes.
The notebook opens with a hinge, it has a Tahan label.
It is noted with the word souvenir, and has a weekly planner.
The silver-gilt stylus is present.
The decoration represents a young couple in a park playing music.
The back shows a bourgeois residence and a church on the edge of a lake.
The purse presents a decoration of young girls and a young man with two sheep.
The back shows a castle near a bridge.
It opens onto four compartments, one of which is smaller to slip in a Louis d'or.
The interiors of the notebook and purse are lined with ivory silk.
They are presented in their leather and velvet case, with the TAHAN label, supplier of L'Empereur in Paris.
Dimensions:
- notebook: 10 X 7.5 cm
- purse: 7.5 cm X 5.5 cm
- box: 19 cm X 10 cm
French hallmarks, boar's head and Master Goldsmith.
Ref: XLYRMI37VK