Antique French Pique Worked Tortoise Shell Cigar or Spectacles Case - Tortoiseshell Etui cigar case The painting is perfectly preserved

The painting is perfectly preserved beneath the slightly convex and highly polished original cover glass

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single well but nearly 7" long

and they're astronomical when we look for them in London

Antique French Pique Worked Tortoise Shell Cigar or Spectacles Case - Tortoiseshell Etui cigar case The painting is perfectly preservedNo, it is not possible to have too many of these fabulous antique cigar cases in finest old c. 1840 70 shell, inlaid with various colors of metal and mother of pearl, abalone. But if you can have only one, this one might well be your first choice. A beautiful 'Japonaise' decorated work with exotic birds, etc., puts this one squarely in the Napoleon III era in style, and within the genre made fashionable by France's 0 Empress Eugenie, wife of the