Superb Antique French Napoléon III Writer's Slope, Ecritoire, 1830-50s Boulle Necessaire glasses A sterling silver collar on

A sterling silver collar on the pen has guilloche work and is fitted with a fine tip dip pen

Carved from what looks like solid old growth European oak and the size is nearly as impressive as the carving

our contact did not remove the lower shelf so you can imagine the size of the resulting package

these 200 plus years

Superb Antique French Napoléon III Writer's Slope, Ecritoire, 1830-50s Boulle Necessaire glasses A sterling silver collar onEscrit, the French word for 'to write' becomes ecritoire when referring to the beautiful tabletop or laptop writer's folding desk shown. What is a writer's slope if you're in England has such an elegant name in France. One sees that same elegance in the boulle work, general design, and the true masterpieces by the early to mid 1800s French cabinetry makers who made these. This one is in a distinctive French manner known as 'boulle', which is after the