Antique Dual Hair Memento Ivory Patch Box, 18K Gold Mounts - RARE and wonderful! Barthelemy exterior convex tortoise shell front

exterior convex tortoise shell front and back are each in great shape

This one even has what appears to be the original skeleton key

Great in the kitchen with toothpicks or matches

Will start to put some up for sale

these were often parts of a set given to a child at first communion

Antique Dual Hair Memento Ivory Patch Box, 18K Gold Mounts - RARE and wonderful! Barthelemy exterior convex tortoise shell frontWhat a superb antique ivory toothpick or patch box! The papered lining still in place, and the 18K gold framed insets of thickly plaited hair are both in place and pristine, as well. The case is, as noted, a patch box. We're often asked what a patch box is, or what 'patches' are, more often. The fashion within France, in particular and later throughout Europe during the mid1700s to early 1800s was to have a noticeable beauty mark. Whlie some very few