Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities and Objects of Vertu

A Victorian bird’s eye maple and Derbyshire black marble inset adjustable book slide, the hinged folding flaps with shaped carrying hand grips and gilt brass mounts and applied with two oval black marble plaques, inlaid with malachite leaves and white fuchsias and jasmine, the single external gilt metal hinge (second missing) stamped ‘SELF CLOSING BOOK SLIDE 8655’ (condition a/f), length when closed 41cm, height 20cm. £100-£120