SUITE OF EIGHTEEN VERMEIL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL CHEESE KNIVES The blade, ferrule and tip in vermeil, the handle in mother-of-pearl. Goldsmith: Egalon Elisa, French work after 1838 In a case from the Lacouture firm in Lyon, worn Gross weight : 500 g Active from 1889, Elisa Egalon was based at 14 rue Rambuteau in Paris. Although little is known about her, she attests to the presence of women goldsmiths in 19th- and 20th-century Paris.