Golden Snuff Box from the 18th Century
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“A box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket. When it was customary to take snuff, as in the eighteenth century, a snuff-box was a common present, whether of good will or ceremony. On this account, and for personal display, these boxes were often made of the most costly materials, highly finished portraits were set in their lids, and settings of diamonds or pearls were not unknown.” —Whitney, 1889
A snuff box with encrusted enamel and an enamel portrait.
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portrait, box, tobacco, eighteenth century, gold, pearl, enamel, pearls, gold box, diamonds, enameled box, encrusted box, jeweled box, round box, snuff, snuff boxSource
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5738
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