Antique French Hand Carved 5.5" Long Shoe or Boot Snuff Box w Angel, Pique, 18th Century to Early 1800s antique purse Elegant antique French Charles X

Elegant antique French Charles X to Napoleon III era double well tea caddy or chest with ornate boulle style brass

English Manor

a Parisian art supply company founded in 1773

It has no odors

One rarely finds them complete and without damage

Antique French Hand Carved 5.5" Long Shoe or Boot Snuff Box w Angel, Pique, 18th Century to Early 1800s antique purse Elegant antique French Charles XThere is a wonderful tiny boutique on a tiny street near St. Paul's in the Marais, Paris, where for decades I have visited every trip just to look at the shoe and boot snuffs (and their very elevated prices). One might think they're not as rare as they are the gentleman who's kept the boutique for a lifetime is perhaps the single most prolific collector. Always fun to compare his with the ones I've found over my long lifetime of collecting them. Based