An English wallet Late 17th century Worked in gold, silver and brightly coloured silks with a gentleman with his dog hunting a stag, on a ground of hillocks with flowering trees, the verso with the arms of the 1st Earl of Yarmouth and motto, 'Le mieux je penser' , and with a shepherd, sheep and squirrels, hillocks and flowering tree, lined with pink silk with notebook and with plaited tie, containing a slip of paper with a fragment of garter of blue silk embroidered in silver 'Honi Soit' , the paper inscribed 'King James's Garter I touch and God cures' (slight wear) the wallet -- 3 x 5in. (8 x 12.6cm.), the garter fragment -- x 4in. (2 x 10cm.)
An English wallet Late 17th century Worked in gold, silver and brightly coloured silks with a gentleman with his dog hunting a stag, on a ground of hillocks with flowering trees, the verso with the arms of the 1st Earl of Yarmouth and motto, 'Le mieux je penser' , and with a shepherd, sheep and squirrels, hillocks and flowering tree, lined with pink silk with notebook and with plaited tie, containing a slip of paper with a fragment of garter of blue silk embroidered in silver 'Honi Soit' , the paper inscribed 'King James's Garter I touch and God cures' (slight wear) the wallet -- 3 x 5in. (8 x 12.6cm.), the garter fragment -- x 4in. (2 x 10cm.)
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