Fine Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Purse, Tortoise Shell 18k Pique, Eglomise of Luxembourg Palace French eagle's head 18k Beautiful old treasure just as

Beautiful old treasure just as it stands

A very fine and rather large pot of a bonbon box

One has to ask

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

they appear to have been stored rather than used

Fine Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Purse, Tortoise Shell 18k Pique, Eglomise of Luxembourg Palace French eagle's head 18k Beautiful old treasure just asIsn'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,