#63

Three Very Fine French "Boites de Bon-Bons"
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$1,200
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Description

5" (13 cm.) Each is pasteboard container in various shapes and colors, one as a vase with unusual fluted sides, gilded metal handles and scenes of little boy and girl, another with unusual ovoid shape and beautiful floral scenes including an epergne. All with original silk sacks for holding candy, and one with the original paper label of Parisian shop,"Fourbet, 102 Rue St. Antoine, Confiseur, Chocolatier" on underside. French, circa 1870, rare luxury candy boxes in perfectly preserved condition, wonderful to collect for themselves, or as accessory objects for doll collection.