Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Snuff or Patch Box, Portrait Miniature of Marie-Antoinette, Signed Wood frame She has the most soulful

She has the most soulful huge brown eyes

the centers with black scenes of prominent Parisian architecture for or involved in the 1900 Expo

the last 2 of these we've had both were stolen from us with credit card fraud

They seem far more fragile than their years prove them to be

Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Snuff or Patch Box, Portrait Miniature of Marie-Antoinette, Signed Wood frame She has the most soulfulSnuff or patch box, Grand Tour souvenir variety from the Victorian or Napoleon III era, c. 1850 70s. The portrait miniature is the type that would have been painted "aprs", or after a famous painting of this historical figure, and whose likeness was popular after a visit to Versailles or the Louvre, Paris. The form on this one is typically thought to have been a snuff box, or a box that might have come with a rosary inside, probably also ivory beaded.