France, Kingdom. A Carved Meerschaum Pipe with Silver Mountings, by E.W, c.1825 Buy Now and provision of crew cadres

and provision of crew cadres for the first operational units

gold crown and cypher

along with two vertical fold marks and a central horizontal fold mark from storage

where a dressing was applied

the plate is marked “ЗД ДАРБС МЕТ”

France, Kingdom. A Carved Meerschaum Pipe with Silver Mountings, by E.W, c.1825 Buy Now and provision of crew cadresA lovely silver mounted Meerschaum pipe, with a delicately and meticulously carved, the bowl presenting a right facing eagle with open wings amongst a trophy of arms in the background, and a shielded N below the eagle, the shank features clusters of three small hashmarks creating a lightly textured field, the silver mountings present a single hinged cover with relief around the edges and the cuff is also reinforced and finished with a silver ring with