Stunning Bespoke Russian Wood Match Vesta French 18k Gold, Sapphires, and Rich Black Moire Silk Cigar Case BERNIER dark colors and red and

dark colors and red and black coalesced into the main Victorian aesthetic of "too much is not enough"

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a thicker wafer than usual so no warping

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revival of the French Empire aesthetic during the reign of Napoleon's nephew

Stunning Bespoke Russian Wood Match Vesta French 18k Gold, Sapphires, and Rich Black Moire Silk Cigar Case BERNIER dark colors and red and"1916 Porte cigarettes lines effect Fernande Guillaux Legrairie par Georges Saxe Bouleau Russie Nord Fermir en or + 2 sapphire". The case is something special, indeed. A Russian exotic wood match vesta set with an 18k gold clasp which has 2 sapphires, one to blue and one to violet in coloration. Let me say that the family this comes from had Russian heritage and the wood is rare and precious Russian wood called Karelian birch (a culturally loaded