Antique Palais Royal Crochet Hook, Tambour, Ivory and 18k Gold Fitting, Self-encasing Case, Handle pencil sketch Seems a little odd

Seems a little odd

I'm able to find it as a purveyor of mostly fine French dolls

it would have been early in the legacy of Maison Boissier

A beautiful piece with gilded finish and an aged patina

Chislehurst

Antique Palais Royal Crochet Hook, Tambour, Ivory and 18k Gold Fitting, Self-encasing Case, Handle pencil sketch Seems a little oddWomen's art. Women's work: crochet and laces made with the variable hook crochet tambour as you see it here. The sections are threaded and hollow and it stores its own variation of hooks within, to be mounted at the end and tightened in with the little cog pin that is seen at the side. These were usually a tool in a larger grouping of sewing and vanity items, fitted to the interior of a grand sewing box, or travel vanity case. Most often these cases