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Excerpt from Old French Snuff-Boxes and Objects of Art and Decoration: The Property of the Late Charles J. Wertheimer, Esq. The case of gold, enamelled en plein with figures of two peasant girls with a lamb and basket, after Boucher, in panels with engraved scroll borders the ground enriched with plaques of dark green enamel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.