Crowned monogram on cut-card chamber stick

[zilverik]

This French chamber stick (Cardeilhac, 250 gr. ; Length overall 20 cm; height 5,8 cm; "diameter" 13,5 cm) is made with the cut-card technique. An applique technique in which the required motif was cut from a sheet of silver and then soldered onto the piece. Apparently the same happened with the crowned monogram on the handle. Who could that be?

Regards,

Zilverik

[JayT]

You have the crowned monogram of a baron, but without good provenance of your item it will be very hard to discover the name of the baron in question. Prior to the Revolution in France barons were not a frequent title. They were not hereditary aristocrats until Napoleon Bonaparte came along in the nineteenth century. He created many barons to reward those loyal to him.

[zilverik]

The Cardeilhac-mark on this chamber stick was used between 1851-1904. The new "Napoleon-barons" still existed in those days?

[JayT]

Yes. Bonaparte created hereditary barons. Then Napoleon III continued the trend, creating barons to reward French industrialists, members of the grande bourgeoisie
Your chamber stick could have belonged to a baron enobled at any time period in the nineteenth century.