Item number: G19

Year: AD 1880–1910

Material: Silver-Gilt

Size: Aide-Mémoire 9.0 x 5.7 / Pencil 71.9 x 5.2 mm

Weight: Aide-Mémoire 47.8 / Pencil 4.9 g

Provenance: Elstob Auctioneers 2023

This finely decorated aide-mémoire is a portable personal writing aid designed for recording brief notes, appointments, and reminders while travelling or conducting daily affairs. Encased in an embossed metal cover with ornamental scrollwork, the object opens to reveal a silk-lined interior originally intended to hold erasable note leaves or slips of paper, accompanied by a slim pencil stored in a fitted side channel. Aide-mémoires were widely used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before the widespread adoption of modern notebooks and pens, and reflect a period when personal organisation, discretion, and refined craftsmanship were closely intertwined in everyday objects. Such items were common accessories among professionals and members of the middle and upper classes, combining practicality with decorative appeal.

物件編號: G19

年代: 公元 1880–1910

材質: 銀鍍金

尺寸: 備忘錄 9.0 x 5.7 / 鉛筆 71.9 x 5.2 mm

重量: 備忘錄 47.8 / 鉛筆 4.9 g

來源: 埃爾斯托布拍賣行 2023

此件裝飾精緻的備忘錄（aide-mémoire）為一種可攜式個人書寫器具，設計用於旅行途中或日常事務中記錄簡短筆記、約會與提醒事項。器物外覆壓印金屬外殼，飾以卷草紋樣，開啟後可見內部襯以絲質布料，原用以放置可反覆書寫或更換的備忘紙張，並於側邊設有專屬凹槽以收納纖細鉛筆。備忘錄於十九世紀末至二十世紀初廣為使用，流行於現代筆記本與書寫工具普及之前，反映當時個人事務管理、行為分寸與精緻工藝緊密結合的生活文化。此類器物常為專業人士及中上階層人士所攜帶，兼具實用功能與裝飾美感。