□ A SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL COMPACT, PROBABLY GERMAN, CIRCA 1930, shaped handbag form with fetter link chains centring on a finger-ring, the obverse enamelled with an oval of a courting shepherd and shepherdess on a black ground against turquoise guilloché enamelling, the reverse engine-turned, with blue cabochon pushpiece to the interior with mirror to one side and a pair of compartments to the other, each compartment with a blue cabochon knob to the lid, stamped 'STERLING' and '935', in a fitted case for the retail jeweller J. Garayalde of Montevideo, compact 7.2cm wide TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

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