Delicate Antique French 18k and Mother of Pearl Stiletto or Crochet Hook, Tambour, Seed Pearls open salt Fantastic & rare antique Victorian

Fantastic & rare antique Victorian era 7 1/8" tall portrait miniature or picture frame with genuine tortoise shell & incised ivory veneers

This one has that

particularly if grouped with other similar antique brooches from your collection

chipped toes and I am confident that the arms are restorations added likely during the mid-late 1880s to the solid section from which the head

Delicate Antique French 18k and Mother of Pearl Stiletto or Crochet Hook, Tambour, Seed Pearls open salt Fantastic & rare antique VictorianImagine what a magnificent antique Palais Royal sewing tools ncessaire or set this one must have come from. It is the size of a stiletto, and I'm unsure if that's what it is but with a bent tip, or if it is a dainty crochet tambour or hook. It is as found, the trim and mount is 18k, no loss to the halo of tiny seed pearls which surround what is likely a garnet but I did not test the stone. Dates latest 1700s to perhaps 1830s at latest. I have only