A NINETEENTH CENTURY SILVER, JARGOON AND ROCK CRYSTAL SET MA...

Hammer

£5,000

A NINETEENTH CENTURY SILVER, JARGOON AND ROCK CRYSTAL SET MAGNIFYING GLASS
the case set to both sides with a rose-cut crystal plaque surrounded by sixteen pear-cut yellow jagoons, above pierced mount with red stone highlights, to an outer border of circular old-cut jargoons with two clusters of jargoons to the base and top of the mount, the handle with gilded lattice work decoration, the case revealing a magnifying glass with a border of jargoons with gold border around the magnifying glass.
Total weight 172.3gms
5.5cm diameter
9.5cm long when closed
16.5cm long when fully opened

PROVENANCE
Property of the descendants of, Captain the Honourable Patrick George Edward Cavendish Acheson MVO, DSO, RN   1883-1957

Passed down through the family from
Luise von Alten, wife first of 7th Duke of Manchester and secondly the 8th Duke of Devonshire, known as the Double Duchess
to her daughter
Louisa, wife of 4th Earl of Gosford
to her daughter-in-law 
Norah, wife of Captain The Hon Patrick Acheson