Fine Antique French Billet Doux, Love Notes Etui via Courier c.1750, Marie Antoinette's Vernis Martin Decorative Favorite mouth blown decanters Wonderful antique Victorian era Black

Wonderful antique Victorian era Black Forest hand carved 9 3/4" desk top thermometer stand

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Hinge and clasp are each working as they should

This one not quite so grand as those but with attractive colorful hand painted birds or hawks & dragonfly figures and elegant in its own right

Fine Antique French Billet Doux, Love Notes Etui via Courier c.1750, Marie Antoinette's Vernis Martin Decorative Favorite mouth blown decanters Wonderful antique Victorian era BlackBillet doux! Decorative style that of layered paint and varnish, a particularly dimensional process developed by the brothers Martin, hence the reference now as just 'Vernis Martin'. A superb one with 2 separate compartments. Complete and essentially undamaged and still with the 2 silver bands 5 5 8" long, 1" diameter. Shows a couple of women friends, seated ini happy conversation, set in forest of trees against a deep green blue ground. Aren't these