This charming black toleware box still has a heady aroma
above a hinged writing slope
bird or in this case monkey’s heads commonly featuring as the terminal
and thickness
The fine peacock wood cane terminating in a hallmarked silver handle fashioned as armadillo armour
An Early 19thC French Passport, Signed by Jules, Prince du Polignac, Later Prime Minister of France sub-Antiques This charming black toleware boxOrigin: France Period: Restauration Provenance: Unknown Date: 1824 Length: 17 inches Width: 10. 5 inches A French passport document bearing the Bourbon arms, made out Au nom du Roi (in the name of the king), to allow a certain Thomas Fitzwilliam English Gentleman, safe passage back from Calais to London. The document is countersigned, stamped, and inscribed by various officials in Dieppe, Calais, and Paris, documenting Mr Fitzwilliam's various