Precious Sterling Silver Tray, Tortoiseshell Center Inlaid By Mappin & Webb

With a refinement as our English friends know how to do, this pretty presentation tray in solid silver oval, well bordered with palmette fillet and chiseled well in hollow by an elegant doucine, in its middle a generous "panache" with scrolls, fine elegant rich motifs inlaid in a brown tortoiseshell style plate. A piece of elegance and prodigious work from the famous Mappin & Weeb house, signed (with the company's mark below the tray), a rare and beautiful piece of curiosity that this oval dish to present the mail or in the way of a pocket emptier by its elegant design well in hand. The scrolls encrusted with fine silver motifs chiseled in panache set the tone for this rare and precious object in very good condition (not scratched or cracked), with a beautiful polish and in high quality silver as appreciated by the English Aristocracy of the Reign of Queen Victoria ... A rare, beautiful and useful collector's item, precious in every way. For an enlightened connoisseur, this piece is remarkable in its know-how and technique.