Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Three small desk seals and a fob seal, the first a French silver gilt example, in the Empire style, bearing French boar’s head assay mark, with monogram seal; the second a 19th century example, the escutcheon-shaped bloodstone intaglio carved with a male profile, in a gold scroll engraved mount with lyre detail, to an ivory handle carved as a seated hound atop a Corinthian column; the third, 19th century, with round cornelian bearing the crest of an owl, with an arrow in one claw, in a foliate gold mount, to a shaped orange banded agate handle; the 19th century fob seal with a carved coral, Corallium Rubrum, fox head, in a gold collar, to a plain round bloodstone base, on suspensory loop. £500-700

Please note both the coral and the ivory are covered by CITIES legislation and maybe subject to export and other trade restrictions.