A Beautiful Post Medieval Silver Bifacial Cross Pendant; ex Sir Francis Cook Collection sub-Antiques Most likely a private commission

Most likely a private commission

home to the Paris Opera

the leather handle is probably later and two of the side skin panels are slightly loose at the corners but it is still in very useable order

bison can distinguish smells from 3 km away and at one time used traditional migration routes across the prairies that are still visible from the air as deep

made by the Aimaq people in the Qala-e-Now region

A Beautiful Post Medieval Silver Bifacial Cross Pendant; ex Sir Francis Cook Collection sub-Antiques Most likely a private commissionOrigin: English Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Silk collection, London, UK; ex Czechoslovakia auction, Kolekce Malych Krizu PI. Refordove, a collection of 87 cross pendants from the collection of Mrs R. W. Reford, the collection originating in the course of the 1920's in England; ex francis Mallet, Malllet & Son, New Bond Street, London; ex Sir Francis Cook (1817 1901) collection, 1st Baronet, British merchant and art collector. Date: 1840