'Ten Watch Keys & Cut Steel Chatelaine'' Swiss and French. Made in the late 18th and the 19th century. Fine, ten watch keys and a cut steel chatelaine with three keys and a seal fob. To be sold without reserve | Important Collectors Wristwatches, Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, 13th May 2007

Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

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?Ten Watch Keys & Cut Steel Chatelaine?? Swiss and French. Made in the late 18th and the 19th century. Fine, ten watch keys and a cut steel chatelaine with three keys and a seal fob. To be sold without reserve

CHF 3,000 - 5,000

EUR 2,000 - 3,000 / USD 2,500 - 4,000

Sold: CHF 5,310

Comprising: a large varicoloured gold key decorated with a military trophy; two gold keys set with faceted glass stones; a pistolform key; a gold hoof-form key; a gold lyre-shaped key with rococo scroll; two gold ratchet keys with seal terminals; a square key; a repousse silver key with hinged panels; the chatelaine with pierced and engraved decoration, polished spoon, faceted cut steel key, kay with diamond-cut and beaded decoration and matching seal, the matrix engraved AMD in gothic letters. Good overall condition. Property of an Swiss collector

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Cut steel work developed in Russia but became very popular in France during the late 18th and early 19th Century. English jewellers also exported this very popular commodity and by the early 19th century Italy, Prussia, Spain, and Russia were also producing it. Cut steel jewellery was worn the Empress Josephine and was popular even to the point of being copied in silver.