Antique French Mother of Pearl Egg Pocket Watch Stand, Tray, Palais Royal Prussian I had another

I had another

which is the longterm problem I got from a flu shot

And while it has a restored crack traversing the cover and some restoration along that bottom left edge and side panels

This one mimics blond tortoiseshell

Antique French Mother of Pearl Egg Pocket Watch Stand, Tray, Palais Royal Prussian I had anotherI've written so many times about the boutiques flanking the garden promenade at the old Palais Royal, palace of Cardinal Richelieu, you all already know the story. This is a trinket, souvenir, from someone's Grand Tour of Paris, first half of 1800s, and very likely from one of those boutiques. Such fun frivolous creativity has gone into these natural mother of pearl shell objects from elaborate mechanical etui presenting sewing sets and or perfume