Officer's Writing Cabinet, Paper, 18thc, A Goose Feather

329694 Here is a pocket pen for poets, officers, travelers, of the form imagined by Mr. Baradelle in the eighteenth century for his wonderful necessaires .... ours is more rustic, larger, cardboard covered with varnished paper , long tube in two parts for storing the goose feathers, round base which is screwed and which contains the small inkwell of blown glass, invertable model .... French working, Directoire period, late eighteenth or early nineteenth, Incomplete papermaker's mark. I have enclosed an antique goose feather, a bit too big for this model, but which has the advantage of still existing ... Dimensions: 21cm x 3,5cm diameter Condition: good , the object has not suffered too much, it lacks a cardboard partition between the inkwell and the feather holder, easy to make ...
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