Boxed set: 2 Piece Set: Antique French Tortoise Shell Cigar Case & Coin Purse, Opulent and Elaborately Worked in Pique manicure The scattered flaws on the

The scattered flaws on the original cover glass are the whiteness you see

5" deepest at the rack

but they can only be considered 'Old Paris'

and has no hairlines nor cracks

Less loss than most of these we find or see - even in museum display

Boxed set: 2 Piece Set: Antique French Tortoise Shell Cigar Case & Coin Purse, Opulent and Elaborately Worked in Pique manicure The scattered flaws on theThe type of set you see here, so opulently finished in fine shell and beautifully inlaid cartouche of gold, is a high end but typical set from France, mid 1800s and was a lovely souvenir or gift for all occasions. Both men and women used these, of course, since even women enjoyed the pleasure of cigars in their day. These types of items survive, usually without mates, but in most cases they did originally come as you see it here, paired in a