Antique Victorian to Edwardian Era Box and 18k Mourning Stick Pin w Coiled Snake, Sapphire Eye rococo dresser All bear the post-1878 French

All bear the post-1878 French Minerve or Minerva hallmarks

You can see from the backside that there have been at least 3 small restorations (patched canvas from the back) but it's difficult to see anything on the paintings to correspond so it's been very well accomplished and probably the restorations are also antique from the look of it

A fringe of beads near the top just add to the beauty

all original and not a print - there is a dark smudge on forehead

it has hundreds s of those Victorian glass beads worked into a very French abstraction of florals

Antique Victorian to Edwardian Era Box and 18k Mourning Stick Pin w Coiled Snake, Sapphire Eye rococo dresser All bear the post-1878 FrenchA gentleman's discreet but meaningful mourning stick pin in 18k gold topped by the symbol of eternity, a coiled snake and in this case set with a tiny facet cut sapphire the color of the sky at dusk, both symbols of mourning and loss. The box shown will be included but is much younger than is the stick pin. Not that you'd buy this to melt the gold, but it's 1. 25 grams. Very good to excellent, both gold and sapphire tested and affirmed. No damage nor