c. 1820s French GlassTopped Box with Two Figures and Interior Mirror man with bible with clipped top and bottom

with clipped top and bottom left corners as evident

which don't close completely tight

I love how the body

Some foxing on both image and card and emulsion loss

casting one eye at us while the other is already on the other side of this broken fence

c. 1820s French GlassTopped Box with Two Figures and Interior Mirror man with bible with clipped top and bottomBoxes in this manner are typically described as "dragee" boxes made to contain French bonbons, or dragee, in the earlyish 19th century. This one, however, has an interior mirror, so perhaps instead was a patch box, or held something else meant for beautifying oneself. A few losses, but pretty amazing to have endured 200 years perhaps protected by the heavenward pointing gesture one of the men seems to me making! (I'm really not quite sure what the man