Scarce Antique French Tortoise Shell Cigar or Spectacles Case, Purse, Souvenir of 1867 Paris Expo Banker's folio script on the top and

Scarce Antique French Tortoise Shell Cigar or Spectacles Case, Purse, Souvenir of 1867 Paris Expo Banker's folio script on the top andA superb and increasingly scarce souvenir of the 1867 Exposition Universelle, Paris a fine Second Empire tortoiseshell gentlemans cigar case inset with an oval glomis miniature of the great elliptical Palais on the Champ de Mars, Ecole Militaire in distance. The reverse painted view on glass (eglomise) captures the sweeping arcaded faade and exhibition grounds in remarkable detail, a refined memento of Napoleon IIIs grand international fair. Unlike

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