Napoleon III Leather Correspondence Box featuring the classic ruban croisé

featuring the classic ruban croisé (crossed ribbon) motif and elegant fluted handles

and a delicate ribbon crest

• Hang above a French farmhouse worktable or antique butcher’s block for a collected

An unrestored example

with a warm

Napoleon III Leather Correspondence Box featuring the classic ruban croisébote correspondance French Leather Correspondence Box Napolon III Period c. 18601880 A monogrammed desktop writing box in gold tooled Morocco leather, made to commission for a named individual. Kept on the writing desk of a cultivated French household, it organised the tools of correspondence paper, envelopes, sealing wax, pens for the social rituals that governed Second Empire life. Its form miniaturises the roll top desk into a portable object: a