Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes

A Fine George III Gold Mounted Snuff Box, Most Probably for a Lady. Made Almost Certainly in London circa 1790. The Snuff Box is of an unusual smaller size and was most probably for...

This elm pot was probably used to store Tabaco. It is finely turned and has an attractive patina.

Classic vintage Hermès cigarette box. Cigarette box is heavy and wrapped in leather. Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) decorative lid. Removable metal ...

The serpentine front with upraised lip for opening. The interior covered in felt.

The white ground floral decorated snuff box with openings at both ends, one opening revealing painted initials D.V. for Duc de Villroy.

The circular box depicting Place Vendome with quote on bottom 'COLON DE LA PLACE VENDOME.' The interior with collectors label 'EVAN THOMAS COLLECTION 408.’

19th century English tortoiseshell hinged box with silver decorations.

No apparent hallmarks. The diaper pattern filled with small crosses throughout and the opening with a slight lip.

Snuff box “savonette” shape in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamel and hand painted miniature on white background depicting two heads of running horses . English “Art Nouveau” ...

This is a fascinating Baccarat style crystal cigarette box is in the shape of a bell. It is brass with a silver finish and some neoclassical desi...

An 18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box, decorated with a couple and two seated musicians in parkland, the sides with small panels within rai...

These boxes were a specialty of Brunswick and are highly collectible, especially if an interesting subject or view. Here we see a banker bagging up his gold...

Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...

Depicting land battles and a seascape. Gilt metal fittings.

Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli of a basket with flowers, in ...

Rare terracota tabacco boxe showing a head of an old Breton End of XIX century around 1900 France

19th Century Japanese inro with 3 lacquered wooden compartments, 63 x 70 x 22 mm in size. Weight 39.1 g. Additional information: Material: Lacquered ...

The pair of jars with covers with old repairs and chips.

This rare pair of Russian folk art treen tobacco containers are beautifully hand turned from one solid piece of limewood. They have well hollowed interiors with a neatly fitting lid ...

19th century French red aventurine top silver box.

A wonderful old tobacco box with handsome banding.  

1970s Indian bronze box with character on the lid.

Maker Elias Adams. Finely engraved with arabesques on cover, shoulder and body.

Pastoral box. Carved antler, wood, metal. Spanish school, 1861. Submit registrations. Oval box made of antler carved in its color, with wood on the lid to reinforce it, decorated o...

An 18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box Top / Lid, decorated with a Lady and Gentleman with a flute in parkland, gilt scroll border, the unde...

Hand painted oval ceramic ashtray with small covered part in the middle. The top of it is decorated with flowers and leaves in bright colours. There are numerous stamps and numbers o...

Pocket snuff flask carved from coquille nut. Amazing small pocket snuff bottle, carved from a large coquille nut. This antique piece was created in the shape of a spinning top with two secret compartments which can be unscrewed to open. Made in the continental Europe and most probably French or Portuguese provenance from the 18th century, circa 1780. Extensively decorated with organic and floral motifs with a beautiful image of a nut on the upper part. Curiously due to the shape of this piece, it could be played as a spinning tool on a table. This adds a particular interest for the multiple use with which the carving was conceived. Weight: 42.60 Grams. Measurements: Diameter of 40 mm and a height of 89 mm (1.57 x 3.5 Inches). Hallmarks: No marks, gorgeous deep antique patina. Coquille Nut The coquille nut emanates from swampy areas on the eastern side of South America, from a palm known as the “attalea funiefera”. Brazilians call it “Piassabe”. The nuts were introduced into Western Europe in the mid-16th century, and used for small carved objects until the end of the 19th century. Coquille nut is a fruit of a Brazilian palm...

Round snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature pastoral image fired enamelled. 18th century French style. Diameter cm. 8 cm high. 1.8. Weight gr. 171. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1968 on inspiration from previous boxes also manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by talented artisan artists with a thick plate suitable for supporting numerous glazing firings at high heat at around 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...

Rare tall screen-printed metal ashtray designed by Piero Fornasetti and produced by Fornasetti Milano in the 1960s Excellent condition Fornasetti was born in the fibrillating post-W...

Antique mid 19th century French 18k gold snuff box, of lobed design with chased scroll and foliate decoration, the hinged cover inset with a circula...

A very early 19th century and fine engine turned silver gilt musical snuffbox. The case stamped F.M. and with early 19th century Swiss export marks and European import marks. Comb bar stamped C.Z bedplate C6. Serial number 147. The cylinder movement with three train weighted escape, 23 part sectional comb with all teeth in pairs, comb bar and fitting screws blued, engraved in script in bedplate verso- 'Jn. Pre. Desire, A Geneva, fecit, an 1813'. Playing a complex single air, in the small superbly engine tooled case...

This antique and elegant lacquered snuff box was handmade in The Netherlands. It is painted on both sides: there's the scene of the fire in Hamburg on the right so detailed to be as ...

An unusual antique gilded and silver gilt bronze box in the form of a drum. Beautiful quality, detail and having good solid weight. We cannot find any markings possibly English or...

Description: Silver snuff box with fluting throughout and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Cabeça de escravo. Weight: 101.25 grams. Dimensions: 8.8cmx2.2cm....

Description: Rectangular snuff box in fluted silver, with guilloche engravings surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 63.18 ...

Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with s engraved on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Absent. Weight: 52.48 grams. Dimensions: 7.4cmx1.6cm. Content:...

Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with plant engravings on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 73.70 grams. Dimensions: 8cmx2cm...

Description: Gilded silver snuff box in bombé shape with plant engravings on the lid and reinforced corners with raised applications. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Mark: Absent...

Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with a panorama of houses engraved in a shell-shaped frame and a hinged lid with friezes. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto...

Description: Elliptical silver snuff box with asymmetrical branches and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve. Weight: 122.62 grams. Dimensions: 9.8c...

Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with a fortress engraving on the lid, surrounded by engravings. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II Title. Weight: 87.38...

Description: Chiseled silver snuff box with half-shells and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Paris I Title. Weight: 37.93 grams. Dimensions: 24.5x11cm. Content:...

Description: Silver snuff box with engravings surrounding a monogram card on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Pakistani. Brand: Karachi. Weight: 115.38 grams. Dimensions: ...

Description: Silver snuff box with relief theater scene and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 65.22 grams. Dimensions: 6.2x1.3cm. Conte...

Description: Snuff box in fluted silver with engraving on the lid, including a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II. Title: Weight: 93.83 grams. Di...

Description: Silver snuff box with grooves on the surround and engraved hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 54.32 grams. Dimensions: 6.8x1.3cm...

Description: Silver snuff box with engravings surrounding the monogram card and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve. Weight: 65.85 grams. Dimensions: ...

Description: Silver snuff box with beveled corners, gold interior and engraved floral motifs. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 51.83 grams. Dimensi...

Description: Fluted silver snuff box with landscape engraved on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 76.88 grams. Dimensions: 8.5cmx3.5...

Description: Ringed silver snuffbox with Russian-style animal-drawn carriage depicting travelers and a gold clasp. Metal: Silver. Origin: Russian. Brand: Moscow. Weight: 143.74 g...

Description: Fluted silver snuff box with embossed lid and monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Netherlands. Brand: Leão Passante. Weight: 41.91 grams. Dimensions: 6.5cmx4cm. ...

Description: Silver snuff box with engraved flowers and branches with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 59.78 grams. Dimensions: 6.8x4cm...

Description: Silver snuff box with blue enameled applications and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Absent. Weight: 96.72 grams. Dimensions: 8.5x3.4cm. C...

Description: Silver snuff box with lace-style engravings, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Mark: Absent. Weight: 53.12 grams. Dimensions: 8x1.5cm. ...

This very fine George III Pocket Nutmeg Grater was made in London in 1802 by Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson. This example is of a large size for a pocket example and may well have b...

A Set of 2 Treen Pomanders in Yew Wood 2 small round early 19th century yew wood lady's pomanders, these unscrew in the centre with scent holes to both sides. one of these has what ...

This charming engraved pewter snuff box, dating to circa 1900, is a beautifully preserved example of everyday Judaica—a personal object once carried a...

A ruyi-shaped Shakudo-style erotic tobacco or snuff box, relief-decorated with silvered applied figures Possibly Jakarta (Batavia), first half 18th century Measures: H. 2.2 x L. 12.1 x W. 8 cm This box is very much in the Dutch taste, for the illustration is after a print with a legend reading “L’oiseau sans cage. Prenez, belle, mon oiseau. C’est le plus doux présent que je puisse vous faire. Pour les autres oiseaux, la cage d’ordinaire est une espèce de tombeau. Mais le mien semble prendre une nouvelle vie, Lorsqu’il sera dans la cage de mon aimable Silvie.” The erotic message is as clear as can be. In Dutch culture the verb ‘vogelen’ (catching a bird) is another word for having sex and a bird escaping from his cage indicates loss of chastity. The lady with the bare breasts, while making the sign of sealed lips to the lady behind her, who is pointing towards heaven, seems to be caressing the bird held in the sleeping man’s groin. 17th century Dutch pictures...

1980s English metal black trinket box with Egyptian art decoration.

This set of 22 boxes contains examples of different sizes and shapes that are produced using different materials and techniques. The boxes contain a variety of stone specimens, such ...