Fine Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Purse, Tortoise Shell 18k Pique, Eglomise of Luxembourg Palace French eagle's head 18k used more particularly by the

used more particularly by the various street vendors and Parisian laborers

they appear to have been stored rather than used

We show one of my modern 18k gold chains with this pair in one photo but that does not come with it

There is a hand written inscription on the paper back of the frame

JOHANN AUGUST: active in Leipzig at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century

Fine Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Purse, Tortoise Shell 18k Pique, Eglomise of Luxembourg Palace French eagle's head 18k used more particularly by theIsn't it a gem! A little Grand Tour souvenir, dating c. 1850 70s, in gorgeous cognac to chocolate mottled tortoise shell with a souvenir view (eglomise back painted glass) of a rare scene: Luxembourg Palace from the gardens. The purse is beautifully preserved, obviously a very special souvenir, but the intrigue is also that in all my decades of collecting, I don't think I've even found a Luxembourg Palace painting. Just look! Elaborate pique in gold,