Antique Palais Royal French Coin Purse and Aide d'Memoire Note and Card Case, in Palais Royal Presentation Box compact but missing the lift-out sewing

but missing the lift-out sewing tray that would have elevated it and its price a great deal

that was coined by 19th century collectors and dealers to credit furniture designer Thomas Sheraton

or even USA during the period

There was some significance to the flowers

palette is elegant

Antique Palais Royal French Coin Purse and Aide d'Memoire Note and Card Case, in Palais Royal Presentation Box compact but missing the lift-out sewingA superb pair of carved ivory items: coin purse and aide d'memoire, card case, strapped with silver and abalone shell, beautifully preserved in a Palais Royal case for coin and notepad. Beautifully shaped, the matched set has no chips on any of the 4 panels of ivory. They are not warped, and even the interiors remain very nicely preserved. The aide d'memoire has an elegant detail of serpentine form with a matching spine of carved ivory. A few pencil