Rare Antique French Writer's Chest, Palais Royal Casket with 18k Mother of Pearl Tools, Inkwells, Wax Seal Fragonard sterling blades and elegant brass

sterling blades and elegant brass inlaid storage and/or presentation box

There is some crazing and a few visible hairline cracks but no actual breaks other than the missing and restored neck & head of the left side peacock

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Swiss Black Forest works of art from the mid-late 1800s

Rare Antique French Writer's Chest, Palais Royal Casket with 18k Mother of Pearl Tools, Inkwells, Wax Seal Fragonard sterling blades and elegant brassLate 1700s to earliest 1800s, this elegant "necessaire" desk top slope opens to reveal the original Palais Royal mother of pearl and 18k gold trimmed writer's implements. Inkwells are original, too. Items include the letter opener paper knife, which as you can see does have a break; eraser tool to scrape the ink error from paper, wax seal without monogram on the matrix; quill knife; stiletto for punching holes in multiple pages of documents which