Antique French Sterling Silver Double Open Salt or Sweet Meat Serving Caddy Travel Clock Foil lined wells for tea

Foil lined wells for tea and or tobacco

We begin to see these starbursts in the late 1800s to very early 1900s

the inlay foils were popular in the time of Marie-Antoinette

itself a fine and valuable antique

Some wear/loss to the gold enamel accenting

Antique French Sterling Silver Double Open Salt or Sweet Meat Serving Caddy Travel Clock Foil lined wells for teaElegant antique French sterling silver double open salt or sweet meat caddy with acanthus accented center handle, guilloche style engraved base and thick wheel cut & intaglio engraved glass! The satin frosted & intaglio etched or engraved double cup of this one looks so much like fine Lalique glass items, doesn't it, but we haven't a signature we can rely upon to point to it being that. The silver is marked with a French Minerve #1, which guarantees