9,360 CHF
Prince Albert Lorgnette Attributed to J. Rossel & Fils à Genève. Made circa 1850. Fine, 18K gold and enamel, rose diamond-set folding lorgnette with concealed painted on enamel portrait miniature of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later HRH The Prince Consort (1819-1861). Notes J. Rossel & Fils Formerly the long established firm of J. F. Bautte & Cie, founded in 1790. Rossel signed “Successors to J.F. Bautte a Genève” between 1860 and 1883. The company won First Class medals at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and Paris 1855. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Francis Albert Charles Augustus Emanuel, later HRH The Prince Consort, 1819-1861, was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the only husband of a British Queen to have formally held the title of Prince Consort. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the dynastic branch of the Saxon ducal family to which Albert belonged, succeeded the House of Hanover on the British throne. See: “Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois”, Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, 1998, pp. 353.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-03-16
