A fine, diminutive gilt and maroon oval antique tooth box.

The box is labelled ‘Charles Fresco Chiru-Dentiste 42, Rue St. Gabriel St-Maurice-Lille’ and on Dimanche 2 Avril 1916 in the Bulletin De Lille is a reference to:

Cabinet dentaire de M. Ch. Fresco, 42, rue Saint-Gabriel, ouvert tous les jours, de 1 à 5 heures.

Making this beautiful little tooth box perhaps 100 years old.

• From the Phisick collection