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Musical Sewing Necessaire, with fitted tray containing cut-glass scent bottle and Palais Royale scissors with fretwork swan grips (one broken), bodkin, snowflake winder, thimble and quiver-form needle case in mother-of-pearl with gilt highlights, in satinwood sarcophagus case with brass handle, cut-steel mounts of Gothic design, and mirrored velvet-lined interior housing two-air cylinder movement by J. G.M. & Co. , wd. 7 1/4 in., (lacking key-escutcheon and back foot).


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Date:
2006-07-29

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