A fine Victorian silver gilt necessaire, of rectangular bombe form, the cover inset with an oval

A fine Victorian silver gilt necessaire, of rectangular bombe form, the cover inset with an oval enamel panel of a young girl with a basket of flowers on her head, framed by cast mermaids and masks and chased foliate scroll borders, the side panels cast with frolicking putti within rococo scroll borders, the scrolled feet surmounted by cast musical putti, framed by a pierced and scrolled apron, the interior fitted with two removable velvet lined trays holding a mother of pearl handled button hook, folding ruler, bodkin, scissors, spike, pen knife, thread spool, together with a travelling inkwell engraved with foliate scrollwork and a bloodstone hand seal, the casket London 1844, maker John Linnet, 12cm wide, the casket weighing 18ozs.