Antique c.1700s French Scent Etui w Perfume Bottle, 18k Cap, Tortoise Shell milkmaid You might want to just

You might want to just display this old beauty

in old Paris

but show one recently viewed in Berlin for reference only

but with modern stores filling most of the open boutiques

This one dates to the Napoleon III era

Antique c.1700s French Scent Etui w Perfume Bottle, 18k Cap, Tortoise Shell milkmaid You might want to justA personal favorite, this is one from my own collections and it displays beautifully on one side. Right up front, I point out that the backside panel of tortoise shell has a good deal of bug bite loss to it. It's the only panel they nibbled, thankfully, so with that side down, it's just gorgeous. The perfume flask inside does go with it, though I am unsure if it would have been original to the etui. It fits, but not perfectly snug as I think it would