Antique French Commemorative Portrait Snuff Box, c.1810 Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise bell flowers Just kept in a goldsmith's

Just kept in a goldsmith's drawer for nearly 200 years

No dents on any of those lids

Our early 20th century oil painting is a superb copy

the little palm etui has been tucked away or in a museum collection for some 280 years to survive this well

Antique French Commemorative Portrait Snuff Box, c.1810 Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise bell flowers Just kept in a goldsmith'sFabulous antique French commemorative snuff box, compost material with a metal portrait disc of Napoleon and Marie Louise, his 2nd wife, whom he married after Josephine and in order to produce a child and heir. The couple married on April 1, 1810, when he was 40 and she was 18. The marriage failed as Napoleon did, having produced a baby boy, "King of Rome", whom Marie Louise summarily dumped off at grandmother's Vienna Palace, Shnbrunn. The child grew