A gold-mounted horn snuff box

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, POSSIBLY FRANCE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A gold-mounted horn snuff box
Apparently unmarked, possibly France, early 19th Century
The curved oblong horn box with gold hinge and circular mount, the cover inset with a medallion struck with Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria en profile
8cm wide

Lot Essay

See illustration above piece was presumably struck to commemorate the marriage of Emperor Napoleon and Queen Marie-Louise in 1809

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