Antique French Sterling Silver & Vernis Martin Painting Necessaire & Note Card Stationery Chest There is a single flaw

There is a single flaw to note in the half-gone round ring carved at the base of the trap in which the fox is caught

But with a wonderful dog carved so nicely up top

and these are more and more rare

A post that holds a match box open

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Antique French Sterling Silver & Vernis Martin Painting Necessaire & Note Card Stationery Chest There is a single flawThis one has a very tiny silver mark that my photographer missed capturing. It's there on the inner lip of the bottom half, where it closed into the upper hinged top portion, and it's a small profile mark that guarantees it as a . 800 1000 purity of silver, made in France between 1818 1838. It is in the earlier style favored by Marie Antoinette, and developed by the brothers Martin, which was a method of layering paint and varnish to get a depth of