Fine Antique French Billet Doux, Love Notes Etui via Courier c.1750, Marie Antoinette's Vernis Martin Decorative Favorite mouth blown decanters This one not quite so

This one not quite so grand as those but with attractive colorful hand painted birds or hawks & dragonfly figures and elegant in its own right

Hinge and clasp are each working as they should

Wonderful antique Victorian era Black Forest hand carved 9 3/4" desk top thermometer stand

Her low sheer bodice gown is the casual Napoleon 1 Era French Empire fashion

A single pillow

Fine Antique French Billet Doux, Love Notes Etui via Courier c.1750, Marie Antoinette's Vernis Martin Decorative Favorite mouth blown decanters This one not quite soBillet doux! Decorative style that of layered paint and varnish, a particularly dimensional process developed by the brothers Martin, hence the reference now as just 'Vernis Martin'. A superb one with 2 separate compartments. Complete and essentially undamaged and still with the 2 silver bands 5 5 8" long, 1" diameter. Shows a couple of women friends, seated ini happy conversation, set in forest of trees against a deep green blue ground. Aren't these