A CONTINENTAL GOLD-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL LETTER-OPENER

A CONTINENTAL GOLD-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL LETTER-OPENER
19TH CENTURY
the handle, carved from mother-of-pearl, formed as a hand clutching a sword, with chased gold sleeve and hilt, the gold blade chased with foliate scrolls, the sleeve inset with vacant bloodstone matrix
8½ in. (217 mm.) long