The unusual objects of Trouville’s salon in France

It is our cousin Jean-Marie SÉJOURNÉ of the lineage 032 who sends us this article of newspaper appeared in Ouest-France of November 4, 2006


The 19-th Salon of the antique dealers of Trouville continues until it on Monday evening.
To discover, the stand of the curiosities of Lionel Trazit.
Specialized in rarities, Lionel Trazit makes the journey of Cantal every spring. Among about forty stands of the salon, his holds attention. They are things that one is not in the habit of seeing, he notes. Either their job is unknown, or the technique disappeared. These rarities come from the Middle Age until the middle of XIX-th century. ” By bending over this box one distinguishes that it is in fact ” an embroidery of straw fixed to green silk. it dates 1660-1680 “. A sort of bronze ball looks like a mini map of the world. ” It is just to protect a toweling, rare at the time “.
Lionel Trazit hunts for antiques enormously to find these unusual objects.
” Now there are also families which contact me ” he continues. This bird-trap of the XVII-th century is rare. ” It served for weighing currencies, where from expression ” details sharp and trébuchantes.
” In what does one distinguish a copper chocolate maker of a commonplace coffeepot? ” The lid has no hinge and in the middle of this one there is a passage for the moussoir “.
Some details are extremely rare: ” this German medal of the XVIII-th century opens. Inside Adam and Eve are bare. One dresses them with fragments of painted mica. This very important rolled paper reliquary dates 1660-1680. The sisters who had made wish of poverty realized it by cutting slices gilded by books. ” A real work of silversmith.

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