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580 - Writing portfolio with a shaped flap, decorated in the Romantic style. [Brussels, Dero-Becker, c. 1830–1850] Cardboard and red shagreen, 23 x 31 cm (closed), fitted with a chased silvered-metal lock, richly tooled in gilt and blind with fillets and elaborate scrollwork and palmette motifs, leather-lined interior, the left endpaper fitted with three expanding compartments lined in red watered silk and featuring gilt-lettered tabs reading “Lettres à répondre,” “Lettres répondues,” and “Notes diverses”; the right endpaper features a printed perpetual weekly calendar, with a loose blotter lined in red watered silk (clasp hook and key missing; a few dark stains; gilt decoration slightly faded in places). A fine portfolio sold by Dero-Becker (fragmentary label bearing the address Montagne de la Cour, Brussels), a print dealer and lithographic printing house active in the first half of the 19th century. Ref. BALaT IRPA-KIK.
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Writing portfolio with a shaped flap, decorated in the Romantic style. [Brussels, Dero-Becker, c. 1830–1850] Cardboard and red shagreen, 23 x 31 cm (closed), fitted with a chased silvered-metal lock, richly tooled in gilt and blind with fillets and elaborate scrollwork and palmette motifs, leather-lined interior, the left endpaper fitted with three expanding compartments lined in red watered silk and featuring gilt-lettered tabs reading “Lettres à répondre,” “Lettres répondues,” and “Notes diverses”; the right endpaper features a printed perpetual weekly calendar, with a loose blotter lined in red watered silk (clasp hook and key missing; a few dark stains; gilt decoration slightly faded in places). A fine portfolio sold by Dero-Becker (fragmentary label bearing the address Montagne de la Cour, Brussels), a print dealer and lithographic printing house active in the first half of the 19th century. Ref. BALaT IRPA-KIK.
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