Antique Napoleon III French Souvenir Box, Ivory, Portrait Miniature up Top, Marie-Antoinette engraving elegant beneath the convex original

elegant beneath the convex original cover glass

Isn't he elegant in his embroidered silk vest

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and the second will also be listed for sale separately

jewelry and hairstyle

Antique Napoleon III French Souvenir Box, Ivory, Portrait Miniature up Top, Marie-Antoinette engraving elegant beneath the convex originalSnuff or rosary box, Grand Tour souvenir variety from the Victorian or Napoleon III era, c. 1850 70s. The portrait miniature is the type that would have been painted "aprs", or after a famous painting of this historical figure, and whose likeness was popular after a visit to Versailles or the Louvre, Paris. The form on this one is typically thought to have been a pocket watch box, or a box that might have come with a rosary inside, probably also ivory