Scarce 18th/19th Century French Five Dial Letter Code Barrel Lock character nice and simple and suiting

nice and simple and suiting it very well I think

I can't quite decipher the name of the artist written on the front of this notebook

with a bit of darkening to the boxwood (which is buttery smooth and just gorgeous) of the exterior

and carefully documents each animal hunted

Scarce 18th/19th Century French Five Dial Letter Code Barrel Lock character nice and simple and suitingI found an antique letter dial lock of this sort a year or two ago, and have been looking for another since so lovely, and why ever would we have decided it was better to remember numbers than letters words??? 18th or perhaps 19th century French, brass and iron steel, with a nice weight to it, and satisfying tension to the turning of the dials when one gets close to lining up the letters that unlock it. And with a star among the letters on the fifth