Antique French Chocolatier's Presentation Box, Confiseur's Casket, c.1830-40s, Glass, Paper, Louis-Philippe

It seems incredible to me that a paper and glass box could have been kept so beautifully for hundreds of years. Fine chocolates box.1820-40, French Restauration to Louis-Philippe era confectioner's (confiseur) box, elegant, card, paper, embossed foil trim, and a lattice of white paper over glass making up the sides, and curved dome of glass up top with a silk flower held within - what a lovely old thing, mirror still on the inside of lid. The etiquette, or confectioner's price stamp is still on bottom this old one. Chocolate or cocoa, as a substance and flavor was introduced to Europe in the 1500s, and by the 1700s, was raised to a fine art in France. So much so, in fact, that by mid-1700s, confectioners and chocolatiers were having special boxes made just for the presentation of their concoctions, bonbons, chocolate delicacies. The boxes, which always attract me, range from tiny round ones in card/glass and with recess of seed pearls, earlier 1700s, and got larger as time went on, fa