Antique French Commemorative Portrait Snuff Box, c.1810 Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise bell flowers Just kept in a goldsmith's

Just kept in a goldsmith's drawer for nearly 200 years

which is rather unique for these

and the high prices

Madam de Pompadour more casual without her powdered wig

sadly these did not make it here unscathed

Antique French Commemorative Portrait Snuff Box, c.1810 Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise bell flowers Just kept in a goldsmith'sFabulous antique French commemorative snuff box, compost material with a metal portrait disc of Napoleon and Marie Louise, his 2nd wife, whom he married after Josephine and in order to produce a child and heir. The couple married on April 1, 1810, when he was 40 and she was 18. The marriage failed as Napoleon did, having produced a baby boy, "King of Rome", whom Marie Louise summarily dumped off at grandmother's Vienna Palace, Shnbrunn. The child grew