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Snuffboxes held snuff. Taking snuff was popular long before cigarettes became available. The gentleman or lady would take a small pinch of the ground tobacco or snuff in the fingers, then sniff it and sneeze. Snuffboxes were made of many materials, including gold, silver, enameled metal, and wood. Most snuffboxes date from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. Snuffboxes have strong hinges so that they could keep out air that would dry out the snuff. Snuff bottles are listed in the Bottle category.
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| Category | Pattern or Item | Description | Year Priced | | Snuffboxes | Porcelain | Enamel, Gilt Bronze, Chinoiserie Scenes, Couple, Bombe Shape, France, c.1760, 3 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Porcelain | Enamel, Gilt Ribbing, Flower Medallion Lid, Germany, c.1775, 2 1/2 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Porcelain | Enamel, Gold Mounts, Man's Portrait, Green, Burgundy Border, Continental, 2 1/2 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Porcelain | Enamel, Harbor, Chinoiserie Scenes, Gilded Scrolls, 2 3/4 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Porcelain | Enamel, Multicolor, Harbor Scenes, Figures, Metal Mounts, Germany, 3 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver Plate | Dog, Lying Down, c.1875, 3 1/2 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Applied Ribbon Medallion, Doves, Fruit, Spain, 2 3/4 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Boys In Field, Engraved, Oval, England, c.1710 | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Fish, Articulated Body, Hinged Head, Mouth, Brass Eyes, Marked 830, 4 x 1 1/2 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | George III, Joseph Taylor, Monogram, c.1804, 2 3/4 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Hinged Lid, Scrolls, Bombe Sides, Stamped, Austria, 1864,3 1/2 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Hinged, Embossed, Napoleon, Wife & Family, 2 1/2 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Hunt Scene, Repousse, George III, c.1812, 3 1/2 In. Diam. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Rectangular, Flower Border, Hinged Lid, Nathaniel Mills, England, c.1841, 4 x 32 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Silver | Red Riding Hood Repousse On Lid, Marked AT, Russia, 2 5/8 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Tortoiseshell | Diamond, Gilt Metal Inlay, Shells, Stippled, Black, Oval, 1800s, 3 In. , | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Tortoiseshell | Gilt Bronze, Flower Reserves, Oval, Continental, 1800s, 3 1/4 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Tortoiseshell | Painted, Woman Holding Letter, Putti, Doves, Round, 3 x 1 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Tortoiseshell | Silver Inlays, Stag Hunt Scene, Riders, IS, Oval, 1757,2 5/8 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Tortoiseshell | Silver Medallion & Mounts, Phipps & Robinson II, c.1775, 2 7/8 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Wood | Man On Horse, Penwork, Signed, Crawford Cumnock, Scotland, 19th Century, 3 1/4 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | Wood | Turned, Woman Wearing Pearls, Painted, 2 1/4 x 1 1/4 In. | 2012 | | Snuffboxes | 18K Gold | Blue Guilloche & White Enamel Borders France 1762 3 1/2 In. | 2011 | | Snuffboxes | 18K Gold | Engine-Turned George III England 1803 3 In. | 2011 | | Snuffboxes | Brass | Copper Man & Woman Playing Bagpipes Scotland c.1760 | 2011 |
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