Antique French Sterling Silver & Vernis Martin Painting Necessaire & Note Card Stationery Chest Ready to hang

Ready to hang

Designer look

the type that would have carried maps or war documents

The frames are all in London hallmarked sterling silver and likely date to around the 1930-40s

The cabinet is mid-sized and charming at 14" tall

Antique French Sterling Silver & Vernis Martin Painting Necessaire & Note Card Stationery Chest Ready to hangThis one has a very tiny silver mark that my photographer missed capturing. It's there on the inner lip of the bottom half, where it closed into the upper hinged top portion, and it's a small profile mark that guarantees it as a . 800 1000 purity of silver, made in France between 1818 1838. It is in the earlier style favored by Marie Antoinette, and developed by the brothers Martin, which was a method of layering paint and varnish to get a depth of