Pair of knives, the handles in mother-of-pearl decorated with an oval cartouche in gold, the ferrules in vermeil with architectural decoration of fleurons and pinnacles. One blade in steel signed Deschamps Beljambe, the other in vermeil Paris 2nd title 1819-1838. Goldsmith : Jean Casimir Capron, registered in 1822. In its red leather case gilded with the small iron of friezes and leafy garlands (accidents). Restorations to the mother-of-pearl.

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