Antique Palais Royal French Coin Purse and Aide d'Memoire Note and Card Case, in Palais Royal Presentation Box compact but missing the lift-out sewing

but missing the lift-out sewing tray that would have elevated it and its price a great deal

it shows very little flaw of its years

in gorgeous cognac to chocolate mottled tortoise shell with a souvenir view (eglomise - back-painted glass) of a rare scene: Luxembourg Palace from the gardens

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Antique Palais Royal French Coin Purse and Aide d'Memoire Note and Card Case, in Palais Royal Presentation Box compact but missing the lift-out sewingA superb pair of carved ivory items: coin purse and aide d'memoire, card case, strapped with silver and abalone shell, beautifully preserved in a Palais Royal case for coin and notepad. Beautifully shaped, the matched set has no chips on any of the 4 panels of ivory. They are not warped, and even the interiors remain very nicely preserved. The aide d'memoire has an elegant detail of serpentine form with a matching spine of carved ivory. A few pencil