Travel set with burr wood veneer, embellished with an escutc - Lot 157

Travel set with burr wood veneer, embellished with an escutcheon on the top, corners, edges, lock and retractable brass handles, lined with red morocco and decorated with friezes of palmettes, foliage and pearls. The lid features a slot for a mirror, which is missing here. In the lower part, two round crystal flasks with vermeil stoppers, a glass, a rectangular pot, five jars (three with rosettes and vermeil stoppers), a funnel, an eye-washer, a coffee pot with wooden side handle where the cup used to be, two wax cases, one of which forms an unmarked seal. In the center, a set of trays revealing, in order: - two razors, a pair of tweezers, a point, a gimlet, a pair of scissors, an ear and toothpick and a brush, a knife, a pair of scissors, a pair of scissors. - a brush, a knife, a penknife, a needle-holder(?), a sharpener - two items are missing from this tray. - two hooks, a ring, a fountain pen and a tongue scraper - an oval vermeil basin - a coffee spoon, a hook (boot-screw?), a corkscrew, a brush trimmed with vermeil - a porcelain saucer and a shaving brush set in vermeil Marked: Guilde des Orfèvres 1793; 1797-1809 1st title and Départements 1809-1819 2nd title Goldsmith TMD for DEMACHY except for the basin Pierre-Noel Blanquier and the spoon Augustin-Louis Cottin Gross weight of vermeil pieces: 436 g With key. 13.4 x 32 x 24 cm Some elements missing: cutlery, pair of scissors, cup. (missing brass rod). Family provenance, Jean Antoine Soulier, French general of the Revolution and Empire, from Ganges, Hérault.