Antique French 18th Century Georgian Era Seed Pearl and Horn Snuff Box, Heart & Tomb Cache Pot 5" deep (frame)

5" deep (frame)

Trimmed in silk ribbon piping

it appears you could easily unpick a side and then simply resew it closed after the exchange

or darkened by an accumulation of dirt and subsequent cleaning

The size of the wafer is quite unique

Antique French 18th Century Georgian Era Seed Pearl and Horn Snuff Box, Heart & Tomb Cache Pot 5" deep (frame)The iconography might help explain why this 250 or so year old snuff shows no sign of use, and is also in nearly immaculate condition. There in center of the worked seed pearl and gold ornamentation worked on boiled horn is a tomb with a heart atop it. Love and loss, it would have 'remembered' someone very dear who died. Seed pearls were iconographic as the tears of the mourner, as well in that time. Isn't it spectacular! a mourning memento, either a