New Years card with an original view of the Trier Cathedral from the eleventh century in original red leather gilt etui with descriptive card

New Year’s Card

After a model by Carl Christian Cramer, Based on a drawing by Georg Osterwald, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Sayn

1841

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Round cast iron medallion depicting an allegory of Nightthe winged figure of Night floats through the air and carries the twins Sleep and Death in her arms an owl flies behind her below her wings
Obverse General Napoleon on horseback crossing the Alps at the St Bernhard Pass on May 14 1800 prior to the battle of Marengo
Small brooch or buckle comprised of a round white jasper medallion with dark blue dip and white jasper bas relief of a seated classical warrior possibly Achilles set in a cut steel mount of pointed oval shape and adorned with faceted cut steel beads around the medallion which are then set in a semi random pattern the downward turned edges engraved in a simple pattern of graduated upside down Vs