Beschreibung:

A George IV travelling toilet service, with silver-gilt fittings, various makers, London, mostly 1823-1827 and circa, probably retailed by Storr & Mortimer the interior with a number of fittings, mostly silver-gilt, engraved in gothic script ‘Janet’ below a baron’s coronet, comprising: a small tapering cylindrical mug, die-stamped surface of hops and leaves against a matted ground, Paul Storr for Storr & Mortimer, 1826, 8cm., 3 1/8in. high ; a cut-glass travelling inkwell, the mounts flat-chased with flowers, foliage and shells, John Douglas 1813 ; a pierced, engraved and flat-chased box lid and mount (cut-glass box missing), John & Archibald Douglas, 1822 ; six oblong or rectangular cut-glass boxes with mounts and detachable flat-chased lids, two pierced, Thomas Whitehead, 1823 ; seven circular or rectangular cut-glass pots or boxes and a similar triangular box with mounts and detachable flat-chased lids, Mary & Charles Reily, 1826/27 ; ten cut-glass bottles of various sizes with screw-on lids, unmarked, circa 1823-1827 ; a single-struck teaspoon in mid 18th century style, the terminal with bearded face, an awl and a button hook, P. Storr, 1826 and circa ; a mounted steel corkscrew, the mount with no maker’s mark, 1826 ; a green-glass scent flask and stopper with richly chased and pierced mount, the sides and hinged lid set with small turquoises, unmarked, circa 1823-1827, 8cm., 3 1/8in. high ; the following, mostly silver-gilt, some with steel blades, &c.: a small perfume funnel, a pair of scissors ( the blades etched ‘LONDON’ ), a bodkin, a pair of tweezers/ear scoop, a tongue scraper, unmarked, circa 1823-1827 ; the following with die-stamped handles: two knives with steel blades and a desk seal, also a small columnar gadget with sliding member and a mounted and turquoise-set etched steel bookmark, 1819-1838, Paris ‘petite guarantee’ mark , together with a contemporary etched steel rule, 20.3cm., 8in. long ; an engine-turned rectangular vinaigrette, Thomas Parker, Birmingham, 1824, 2.7cm., 1 1/8in. wide ; a gilt-metal paper knife with rococo pattern mounted and carved mother of pearl handle, unmarked, circa 1823-1827, 21cm., 8 1/4in. long ; a small almost cylindrical chased and turquoise-set collar; and the following gold items: an engine-turned pencil holder, with turquoise-set slider and a rococo pattern dip pen with gilt-metal nib fitting, unmarked, English, circa 1823-1827 ; and two rectangular pill boxes with cut corners, the hinged lids richly chased with foliage around a central cartouche engraved with the initials JV below a European nobleman’s coronet (for the former Jane Elizabeth ‘Janet,’ Countess of Ellenborough while she was married, 1832 to 1842, to Baron Karl Theodore Herbert von Venningen Üllner (1806-1874) of Bavaria), unmarked, 4.3cm., 1 5/8in. wide; in a rectangular hardwood case with green velvet and silk lining, brass handles, the hinged lid inset in brass with the entwined initials E J, respectively engraved ‘LLENBOROUGH’ and ‘ANET’ below a baron’s coronet the case 52cm., 20 1/2 in. long