Antique Leather Top Hat Box, Luggage, French Silk Top Hat Inside. Collar Box heraldry to wonderful effect

to wonderful effect

Late 1700s to mid-1800s pendant

Frame has the only flaw to note and that is a tiny bit of crumble of the gesso ornamentation to bottom right

and it comes to us from France unframed and original

3 grams in weight

Antique Leather Top Hat Box, Luggage, French Silk Top Hat Inside. Collar Box heraldry to wonderful effectJust in from France, this fabulous old top hat and gentleman's leather luggage to carry it. Still has a wonderful interior, the old fitting of a collar box (and cumber bun, cuff links, jewelry, etc., which has the old original dressing mirror still perfectly intact, too. I see this, like others we've had and sold, in a period movie as a prop (yes, we sell to the lot props of major studios), or in a museum display, or a fabulously fitted out dressing