| 468. A Three Piece Sterling and Tortoise Shell Dresser Set, Birmingham, England, circa 1917
Comprising a mirror, a rectangular clothes brush, and a hair brush, each with a slightly domed and tortoise shell back inset with sterling wreathes, the sterling bodies hallmarked maker's mark HM, the clothes brush stamped Mappin & Webb. Hair brush 9 1/4" l., clothes brush 6 1/4" l., mirror 10" l.
800/1,200
Condition: hairbrush lacking one pin, 1/4" crack near end of brush, clothes brush slight fogginess to tortoise, mirror with 1" section of tortoise veneer at bottom of handle coming loose from silver, tortoise slightly foggy.
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