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fairly close to the surface

small enough to put in your pocket and take anywhere

which I think brings it out quite nicely

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Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet hardwood box ) I've learned that sheNot exactly my usual thing (and my handbag of choice is a New Yorker tote) but the embroidery on this handbag is so fine and so beautiful I completely fell in love with it (and really feel like someone should carry it to a Met gala!) In trying to research and place it, I realized that what the metallic embroidery in gold and silver reminds me most of is a 19th c. French or Italian reliquary I recently had incorporating very elaborate metallic thread