Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy The hardware is often one

The hardware is often one of a kind hand made/cast and we see fine details like dovetails on the drawers

Long tail feathers

just how lovely and old it is

I've added in an enlarged image of the one

One is chipped and needs to be replaced if you want them even more perfect than they are

Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy The hardware is often oneJust as the 1830s transitioned with the Coronation in England of Queen Victoria, c. 1837, and the styles returned to more modest and high collared, buttoned up and less revealing, and double and triple parted hairstyles were all in vogue, this beautiful young woman put on her best gown and her cameo and sat for her portrait. Perhaps a wedding portrait, the cameo her honeymoon Grand Tour souvenir of Italy and the miniature painting, which is most