RARE Fine Antique French c.1700s Semi-opaque Tortoise Shell and 18k Gold Pique Snuff Box 19th c. Clean and wonderfully preserved

Clean and wonderfully preserved

The interior still fitted for a load of travel items no longer there

we do often sell our micro mosaics and pietra dura antiques back to Italy for their current tourist trade

as it is framed in the manner typical of Georgian to early 1800s England

But if you know the iconography

RARE Fine Antique French c.1700s Semi-opaque Tortoise Shell and 18k Gold Pique Snuff Box 19th c. Clean and wonderfully preservedFabulous rare c. 1750s snuff box, finest blond tortoise shell with just a light modulation to chocolate shell, naturally gorgeous! Plus all that exquisite tiny star and decorative edging pique in 18k gold. Some of the finest work, and so well preserved for these 270 or so years. Lathe crafted and carved rare blond tortoise shell (the rarest color, semi transparent as you can see). The entire snuff is painstakingly marked and cut and inlaid with a