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Stamped Boissier Boulle Bronze Jewelry Box Napoleon III Period

Object description :

"Stamped Boissier Boulle Bronze Jewelry Box Napoleon III Period"

Jewelry box in Bronze

stamped BOISSIER

MAISON BOISSIER
It is in these terms that Victor Hugo already celebrated Maison Boissier...
"Confectioner, Chocolatier (3 bars at the Club des Croqueurs de Chocolat), Maison Boissier is part of history, and continues with talent and selectively the unique knowledge of Bélissaire Boissier, founder of the House.
1827
First counter on Boulevard des Capucines.
As success arrived, and in order to be closer to the good society which began to take up residence around the Place de l'Etoile, he installed on each of its main avenues: Champs-Elysées, Boulevard de Courcelles, Avenue Raymond Poincaré, Avenue Victor Hugo, a “Boissier” in front of which you could stop your carriage to stock up on sweets.
Like a sweet nod to history, Maison Boissier today offers a range of products, resulting from traditional know-how respected in an absolute manner, and embellished or diverted over time in order to combine creativity and tradition original....

Napoléon III period
gold patina
Perfect condition
extraordinary fineness and quality of decoration
inside in Velvet
no key
Dimensions (in cm) :
diameter: 14 cm height: 15 cm
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