Petit c.1750-1800 French Scent or Perfume Caddy, Tortoise Shell Pique, Bottle, Complete eyeglasses The old face screens were

The old face screens were requisite accoutrement for any fine home in the 1800s

a combination tweezers and ear wax spoon

and it appears something is also chipped on the underside below the front edging of leaves

But I digress (I'm prone to telling the stories

Petit c.1750-1800 French Scent or Perfume Caddy, Tortoise Shell Pique, Bottle, Complete eyeglasses The old face screens wereRare old perfume flask still inside the elaborate etui or hinged caddy in which it was first placed, c. 1750 1810. Stopper still intact and in place, a little stuck from residue of the scented or perfumed salts within, and we didn't soak it to try to loosen it. We'll leave that to it's next owner. Most of these cases, those that survive at all, no longer have the perfume salts bottle, flacon, flask inside. So treasured is this one, it if not only