Antique French Napoleon III (c.1850-70) Tortoise Ormolu Scent Caddy, 2 Perfume Bottles 18th century French All of the elaborate silver

All of the elaborate silver inlays in the deep chocolate tortoise shell is complete

mostly worked in graduations of white to deep gray and with accented woodwork bouquet inside the oval and making up the red background

the uniqueness of the art a legacy that goes back to Byzantine and Roman times

you can see that the inner lip of the lower half of the snuff box does have 3 chips

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Antique French Napoleon III (c.1850-70) Tortoise Ormolu Scent Caddy, 2 Perfume Bottles 18th century French All of the elaborate silverAntique French Napoleon III (c. 1850 70) or earlier tortoise shell scent caddy with both of the original small perfume flasks (flacon) still inside. This type of casket usually has cracks, hairlines, breaks but this one is absolutely without any damage rare to find in this condition. One stopper missing. I really don't think the stopper with it is original it's quite loose. Caps have French boar's head punch mark, . 800 1000 pure silver, and vermeil