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

I see no fading nor any damage at all in the amazing needlework

instantly identifiable as having come from the old Palais Royal boutiques

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

Few paths were open to young girls

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