Snuff boxes date from a time when snuff taking was a popular habit, from 18th to mid 19th century. Snuff boxes could be exquisitely made and valuable; the cheapest were made from potato pulp.

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These strange figures, less readily identifiable, are actually snuff boxes - increasingly popular with collectors nowadays, whether made of silver, gold, porcelain, brass, copper, horn ...

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