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Montesquieu Portrait Tortoiseshell Snuff Box
By Jacques Joseph de Gault
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite miniature of French philosopher Charles Montesquieu graces the lid of this tortoiseshell-lined snuff box. The handsome portrait was fash...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
A small oval tortoiseshell piqué patch pot
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A small oval tortoiseshell piqué patch pot, the hinged lid with a beribboned garland of flowers round a blank escutcheon, raised on four ogee feet....
Category
Early 20th Century English Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
A large Edwardian shaped rectangular silver and tortoiseshell piqué box
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Edwardian shaped rectangular silver and tortoiseshell piqué box, the hinged lid with a dainty basket suspended from a bow with long ribbons entwined with flowering tendrils, ...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Silver
Bruguier Tortoiseshell Swiss Fusée Singing Bird Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extremely rare, early Swiss automaton singing bird box by the famed Charles Bruguier is housed in a case enveloped in luxurious tortoiseshell. Ev...
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19th Century Swiss Louis XV Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Gold
Erotic Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
A scintillating Sapphic scene adorns the cover of this rare erotic snuff box. Set into the top of this burlwood and tortoiseshell container, this high...
Category
19th Century European Other Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Glass
Burlwood Erotic Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
There is much more to this exquisite Georgian snuffbox than meets the eye. Beautifully crafted of striking burlwood, this unassuming box features a lining of precious tortoiseshell and a false bottom, which, when gently unscrewed, reveals a miniature erotic painting of exceptional detail. Erotic antiques...
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19th Century English Other Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Burl
Engraved Tortoiseshell Music Box with French Revolutionary Inscription
Located in London, GB
This finely engraved and inscribed tortoiseshell music box is a precious piece of French Revolution and Napoleonic history: given as a gift by the Duchess of Gdansk in 1837 to a neph...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
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Singing Bird Cage by Bontems with 2 birds
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Located in Zonhoven, BE
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Musical snuff box by BA Bremond
Located in Zonhoven, BE
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1840s Swiss Victorian Antique Tortoise Shell Boxes
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1960s Rectangular Sterling Silver Jewelry Box
Located in Paris, FR
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French Snuff Box, circa 1800
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
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Vintage Cigarette Dispenser Burlwood Box
By Davidoff 1
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Vintage Cigarette Box Burlwood Sterling on Glass
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tortoise Shell Boxes
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Austrian Silver & Enamel Horse Snuff Box
Located in Newark, England
The box of rectangular shape with faceted corners topped with an enamel scene featuring three horses grazing by the watering trough amongst a sunburst enamel background. The interior...
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A Charles II Tortoiseshell Pique Squeezie Spice Box made circa 1680
Located in London, GB
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19th c. English Tortoise Shell Box
Located in New York, NY
19th century English box composed of bone-trimmed tortoise shell and featuring a silver ball finial and four ball legs.
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English Tortoiseshell Shaped Snuff Box with Yellow Metal Inlay
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Located in San Francisco, CA
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Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Stamped signature: Redmile London
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Tortoiseshell and Brass Box by Karl Springer
Located in New York, NY
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