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| Notebook French, Nineteenth Century The Hull-Grundy Gift to The British Museum |
Known as an "aide-mémoire", this notebook with hinged covers of blue enamel on a guilloche ground is decorated with applied four-color gold trophies of gardening implements on one side and doves, and bows and arrows on the other.
Each trophy is entwined with a gold ribbon and an inscription in rose diamonds set in silver.
The piece is clasped with a sliding gold pencil. The interior sports three ivory leaves, each containing writing in French from its original Nineteenth Century owner.
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