Souvenir key, steel with full shank and a simple feather shaped like two square brackets; gilded bronze knot and handle: oval handle of two U-shaped leaf-decorated sections fastened with a ducal mitre. Inside, an oval plaque with a Gothic monogram M and blue enamel on one side, and a cast inscription on the other: VON / DER STADT / DARMSTADT / DEN 26 DECEMB: / 1833. Given to Duchess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria 1813–1862 and her husband Ludwig III on the occasion of their wedding, 1833, Darmstadt, Germany; height 8.9 cm, width 2.6 cm., A decorative metal key rests in an open rectangular box

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