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Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes For Sale
Silver plate and Shagreen Cigarettte Case
Located in London, GB
A fine and unusual silver plate and shagreen cigarette case. Shagreen was a popular but rare material used in the 19th century on certain fine pieces, such as clocks and cases. Its b...
Category
1890s English Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Shagreen
Russian Silver Niello Tobacco Box, Moscow, circa 1820-1830
By Gustav Klingert
Located in Sarasota, FL
Russian silver niello tobacco box with finely etched pastoral scenes and interior gold wash. The box is marked on inside with "84" for Russian si...
Category
Early 19th Century European Empire Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Petite Chinese Opium Box, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box is formed of brass and provided an airtight s...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Silver snuff box with engraved ivory couple and gilded interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with a couple in an idyllic scene engraved on ivory, enameled all around and gilded interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Austrian. Brand: Head of Diana. Wei...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,400 Sale Price
30% Off
Tiffany & Co. 14k Gold Compact on the Chain
Located in Sarasota, FL
Tiffany & Co. 14 K gold compact. Marked on the interior. Very lightly used.
Weight 99.3 g or 3.2 t. oz.
Category
Late 18th Century American Edwardian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Guilloche silver tobacco box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver tobacco box with wood-lined interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: London. Weight: 710.30 grams. Dimensions: 17.9cmx5.2cm. Content: 925/1000. ...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Tonnel Paris 1928 Art Deco Box In 14Kt Gold With Red & Black Lacquer And Diamond
By Tonnel Paris
Located in Miami, FL
An art deco enameled box designed by Tonnel Paris.
Magnificent rectangular box, created in Paris France for Tonnel-Paris during the art deco period, back in the 1920's. This beautiful cased box has been crafted in yellow gold of 14 karats and embellished with applications of red and black thick glass enamel. It is fitted with a nine-barrels hinge and a push thumb lock. The lid is decorated on top with an extra art-deco motif made in platinum, which are set up with three European old round diamonds. The craftmanship and the contrast of colors are amazing. The interiors are highly polished showing rich yellow gold and actually, this gorgeous box can be used for presentation cards.
Diamonds: The platinum part is mount, with 3 European round diamonds, .06 carats, white colorless F color, VS-2 clarity.
Weight: 119.95 Grams, (76.89 Dwt).
Measurements: 56 mm by 89 mm by 12 mm (2.2 x 3.52 x 0.47 Inches).
Hallmarks: Stamped with French marks; three times with the maker's mark AC...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Gold, Platinum, Enamel
$4,550 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century French Porcelain and Brass Trinket Box with Flower Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century French porcelain and brass trinket box with flower decorations.
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage 20th Century English Solid Silver Cigar Box Retailed By Finnigans c.1947
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Vintage 20th Century English solid silver cigar box. Elegantly crafted, this box features a reeded decoration throughout in adjacent placement. On the underneath of the box, there is...
Category
20th Century British Other Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Art Deco porcelain monkey tabacco box
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Deco porcelain monkey tabacco box
Hand-glazed and hand-painted, created by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz and manufactured by Theodore Haviland
By: Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Theodore Havila...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Edwardian Sterling Silver Tobacco Box by William M Hayes
By William Hayes
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
This exceptional antique Edwardian sterling silver tobacco box has a plain circular rounded form.
The underside of this box has a subtly concave form proffering a comfortable fit in the majority of pockets.
The surface of this antique silver tobacco box is plain and unembellished.
This silver tobacco tin or box retains the original sprung flush hinged hallmarked subtly convex cover, which opens by applying gentle pressure to each side.
The interior of the box retains the original gilding.
This antique Edwardian piece is an exceptional example for its type.
Condition
This antique tobacco box is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and in exceptional condition. The box has been professionally polished and is in presentation condition. Full hallmarks and part hallmarks struck to the interior of the box are all very clear.
Dimensions
Diameter 8.7cm/3.4"
Height 2.4cm/0.9"
Weight
3 troy ounces/92.7g
Maker: William M Hayes...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Etched Chinese Opium Box, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A small brass canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box dates to the 19th century and is decorated with etchi...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Antique Brown Leather Snuffbox Boot Shape
Located in Munich, DE
This highly unusual and rare snuffbox has been handcrafted out of leather in the last quarter of the 19th century. It has been much loved and used, but the lid still closes tightly.
Category
1890s Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather
A Very Fine Early 20th Century Enamelled Sterling Silver Cigarette Case
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The front of the case exhibiting an exquisite hand painted panel depicting sprays of irises in shades of lavender, royal blue & green, set against a radiant white enamelled machined ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Machine Age Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
England 1780 Georgian Battersea Enamel Baroque Decorated Box in Gilded Bronze
Located in Miami, FL
Late 18th century Georgian Battersea enamel box.
A beautiful antique English Battersea Bilston table snuff box, created in the district of Bat...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
$2,089 Sale Price
30% Off
19thC German 18K Gold & Enamel Snuff Box, Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Hanau c1810
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 19th Century German 18ct gold and enamel snuff box, of rectangular form with rounded corners, featuring a hinged cover framed by chased foliate borders on a deep blue g...
Category
19th Century German Other Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Curved ribbed silver-gilt pocket snuff box - 19th century
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Curved ribbed silver-gilt pocket snuff box - 19th century
George III - John Turner Sterling - Early 19th century
Dimensions: 9 x 5 cm (3.5 x 2 in) H: 2 cm (0.8 in)
Material: Silver
R...
Category
19th Century George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Vermeil
Silver snuffbox and matchbox
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox and matchbox with twisted lighter and rolling system, engraved floral elements and monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Tit...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$875 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver Oval Box, 19th Century, with Hallmarks
Located in Madrid, ES
Oval box. Silver, 19th centu.
With contrast marks.
Oval box with flat lid made of silver, partially gilded, decorated on the outside with figurative scenes ...
Category
19th Century European Neoclassical Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver snuffbox with Hebrew-style engravings and double safety chain
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with Hebrew-style engravings and double safety chain. Metal: Silver. Origin: Hebrew. Brand: Cabeça de Carneiro. Weight: 245.36 grams. Dimensions: 9cmx13...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,225 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver tobacco box with Islamic-style reliefs and a wood-lined interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver tobacco box with Islamic-style reliefs and a wood-lined interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Egyptian. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 238.21 grams. Dimensions: 14x7cm. Conte...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$875 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver Art Nouveau snuffbox with dog’s head in high relief
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox in Art Nouveau style with a dog's head in high relief surrounded by floral motifs. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 90.94...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$700 Sale Price
30% Off
Snuff box with bone lid and gold-covered tortoiseshell, with floral ornaments
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box with bone and tortoiseshell lid covered in gold, with floral ornaments. Metal: Gold. Origin: English. Hallmark: Absent. Weight: 71.88 grams. Dimensions: 7x3.4c...
Category
18th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$4,200 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver snuff box with engravings surrounding a monogram card and a hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with engravings surrounding the monogram card and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 44.25 grams. Dimensions: ...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$420 Sale Price
30% Off
English Pewter Decorative Foliage and Figural Gadrooned Tobacco Jar, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
English Pewter decorative foliage and figural tobacco jar with a molded edge lid and gadrooning rope borders, Late 18th Century.
Category
1780s English George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Dunhill Cork and Leather Tobacco Jar
By Dunhill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsome cork and leather tobacco jar from London. Beautiful patina to the cork and leather. Jar can be used as a tobacco, weed, or stash jar. Cork is a clas...
Category
1950s English Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather, Cork
19th Century Black Forest Carved Humidor
Located in High Point, NC
19th century hand-carved humidor in the form of a dog's head. The dog is very whimsical with a hat, which lifts to reveal a compartment for storage and finished with a cigar and a bo...
Category
19th Century Swiss Black Forest Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Petite Oval Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th-century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. Perfecting line and form, the small box has a balanced, oval form shaped of white brass (...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Minimalist Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box, painted with figures and a boat by a classical colonnade . 3.25" wide x 2.5" depth x 1.5" high
Category
18th Century English Rococo Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Antique Austrian Silver Table Snuff Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austrian silver table snuff box; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This excepti...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Japanese Keyaki Elm Tabako-Bon, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This box with many drawers is a Japanese tabako-bon, or 'tobacco tray,' used to store tobacco and smoking accessories. Believed to have evolved from the t...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
17th Century German Silver Gilt Tobacco Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique German silver gilt tobacco box; an addition to our 17th century silverware collection.
This exceptional antique 17th century German silver...
Category
1690s German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff box in gilded silver
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in gilded silver with reliefs and friezes, hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Greek tragedy mask. Weight: 114....
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$875 Sale Price
30% Off
Papier-mâché Snuffbox, Painted with a Portrait of a Bearded Man
By Stobwasser
Located in Delft, NL
Papier-Mâché snuffbox,
A snuff box painted with a portrait of a bearded man with a turban, possibly after a painting by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich...
Category
19th Century German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Paper
Cigarette dice dispenser by Legros Marius for Dunhill Paris 1930s
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Our Beautiful and limited Jeweler-made Cigarette Dispenser hallmarked by the silversmith Legros Marius for Dunhill that resembles a stacked pair of dice with playing cards on top.
Discover the allure of a vintage pre-War Dunhill dice...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Very Good 19th Century Sterling Silver Snuff Box, Hallmarked Birmingham 1839
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very good 19th century Victorian sterling silver snuff box of oblong form, showing a hinged lid engraved with machined undulating wavy motifs, centred by a monogrammed shield-shaped cartouche, opening to a richly gilded interior with both the lid & base bearing Birmingham hallmarks...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare silver Herb Box (Yerbera), Upper Peru, Potosí, c. 1775–90 great repoussé
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Herb Box (Yerbera), Upper Peru, possibly Potosí, c. 1775–90, cast, repoussé, and chased silver,
the design is very intricate, with lions, cats and some other animals, and a women on the lid, it is made in a shell shape with a classical women on top of the lid, the body is all hand made with lions and wild cats with leafs designs, the inner part is divided into two compartments, as usually in this type of boxes. lock is not working but it is very nice and "primitive" looking.
Boxes have a long history across cultures and time. In Spanish America, containers of many types, styles, and materials were cherished as gifts. Known today as yerberas (herb boxes) or coqueras (coca boxes...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Glass Chinese Snuff Bottle Qing Dynasty Qianlong Famille Rose Imperial Yellow
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A very rare and exquisite asian glass Chinese snuff bottle from the late Qing Dynasty. This exceptional snuff bottle bears a later Qianlong mark and is designed in the iconic famille...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Qing Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Milk Glass, Paint
Black Forest Hand-Carved Wooden Terrier Box
Located in Northport, MI
This is a joyful novelty- a Black Forest hand-carved Terrier box. A beautifully executed piece with exceptional detail, right down to the tail. This terrier’s hind legs are attached ...
Category
1920s German Folk Art Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
English 19th century desk snuff box circa 1840
Located in Central England, GB
This masterfully engineered and very complicated English ebony engine turned table snuff box dates to the mid 19th century.
It has been hand machined from solid ebony with multiple ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Empire French Pressed Wood Snuff Box, Early 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The circular lidded box depicting a woman reclining on a Recamier playing the harp. The underside with a star surrounded by banding with stippling decoration.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
$720 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique 19th Century Victorian Silver Mounted Ram’s Head Snuff Mull c.1874
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Victorian silver mounted ram’s head snuff mull, the head is fitted with a silver compartment for snuff, chased with thistles and centred by a facetted oval cryst...
Category
1870s British Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Small 19th Century Papier-Mâché Snuff Box – Gilt Lacquer Decoration, c.1830
Located in Worcester, GB
Small 19th Century Papier-Mâché Snuff Box – Gilt Lacquer Decoration, c.1830
A small early 19th-century rectangular snuff box in papier-mâché, with gently domed lid and rounded corne...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Early 19th Century Papier-Mâché Snuff Box with Silver Inlay, c.1820
Located in Worcester, GB
Early 19th Century Papier-Mâché Snuff Box with Silver Inlay, c.1820
A small and decorative early 19th-century snuff box in lacquered papier-mâché, the shaped lid finely inlaid with ...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Tobacco box in rosewood with silver applications
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Tobacco box in rosewood with silver applications featuring bows, puttis holding wreaths and medallions with ancient ladies in relief in perfect shape. Metal: Silver. Ori...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,575 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver snuff box with coat-of-arms engraving and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with engraving involving a coat of arms for monogram and a hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Brand: Absent. Weight: 63.17 grams. Dimensions: ...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$525 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver toiletry box with mirror inside, tobacco container and utility chain
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver toiletry box with mirror inside, tobacco container and utility chain. Metal: Silver. Origin: Switzerland. Brand: Walking Bear. Weight: 112.10 grams. Dimensions: 8...
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19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$700 Sale Price
30% Off
Victorian sterling silver book form snuff box made in London in 1897
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1897 by Harris Adelstein, this handsome, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Snuff Box, is designed to look like a book, and has a gilt interior and engraved d...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Swiss Enamel And Gold Musical Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This exceptional 19th-century gold box appears at first glance be an exquisite snuff box adorned with a charming Swiss enamel vista encircled by a multitude of natural pearls. A quick wind of the key, however, reveals the complex mechanism hidden inside, and the box plays a wistful tune. Once known as carillons à musique...
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19th Century Swiss Other Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Chantilly Kakiemon Circular Soft Paste Snuff Box, circa 1745
By Chantilly
Located in Spencertown, NY
Chantilly circular Kakiemon decorated snuff box with gilt metal mounts. Circa 1745
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Mussel Vesta Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver Vesta case in the form of a mussel; an addition to our diverse smoking related silverware collection.
This exceptional antique sterling silver Vesta case...
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1860s Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Shepherd Box, Carved Horn or Antler, Spain, 1822
Located in Madrid, ES
Shepherd box. Carved horn. Spain, 1822.
Rectangular box made of carved horn that has a date (1822) engraved on the lid and front, a legend (Soi de Manuel Zulueta year 1822) and an...
Category
1820s Neoclassical Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Other
RARE Austrian silver (ALT WIEN) Havdalah spice container, Judaica ISRAEL MUSEUM
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Up for sale is this museum quality Judaica Havdalah spice container, very rare with great provenance!!
This silver spice tower was made in Vienna Austria, on the early part of the 19...
Category
Early 1800s Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
18th Century Large South Staffordshire Table Snuff Box
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century Large South Staffordshire Table Snuff Box, painted with figures and animals by classical ruins on a riverscape. 8.25" wide x 5.5" depth x 3.25" high
Category
18th Century English Rococo Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Art Nouveau Silver Cigarette Case & Matchbox, Portrait Of A Nude, Vienna ca 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Exquisite Austrian Art-Nouveau Tabatière and Matchbox, Around 1900:
Rectangular silver cigarette case in a smooth finish, curved, with hinged lid, coloured enamel painting on the top...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Austro-Hungarian 1824 Silver Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austro-Hungarian silver box, an addition to the ornamental silverware collection
This exceptional antique silver box...
Category
1820s Austrian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Faux Tortoiseshell Veneered Etui for Wax and Sealing Sticks, English c.1830–1860
Located in Atlanta, GA
A refined mid-19th century personal writing accessory, the rectangular case sheathed in richly mottled tortoiseshell veneer, its surface presenting a deep marbled pattern of honey an...
Category
Mid-19th Century English British Colonial Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Shell, Velvet
18th Century Bilston Enamel Rectangular Patch / Snuff Box Circa 1775
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Bilston Enamel Rectangular Patch / Snuff Box Circa 1775, rare purple ground colour, floral motifs around edges, and a central scene of a bird surrounded by fruit, white ...
Category
18th Century English Rococo Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Edwardian 1905 German Enameled Cigarette Case Box in Solid .800 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
Enamelled German cigarette case.
Great historical piece, created in Germany during the turn of the century, back in the 1905. This beautiful cigarette box has been carefully craft...
Category
Early 1900s German Edwardian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$969 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver and Shibayama tobacco box with combination vesta case lid
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare silver shibayama tobacco and combination vesta case lid and strikers on pot. Decorated with individual hand crafted insects in semi precious stones. The Shiba...
Category
1910s English Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Snuffboxes for Sale on 1stDibs
Today antique snuffboxes and tobacco boxes — as well as a lot of other vintage tobacco accessories — are collectibles and charming pieces of decor for any display case or to elevate your bookshelves.
Snuff, made of ground tobacco, was especially popular with Europeans in the 1600s. The ornate boxes to keep the powder dry became highly decorative by the 18th century. It was considered a must-have item, particularly for nobility.
The most important feature of a snuffbox was that it was airtight. The box protected the snuff from oxygen. Another crucial component was the flat lid.
Snuffboxes could be small enough to fit into a pocket or a larger container for communal use at the table. They also came in different shapes. Porcelain containers were prevalent and often designed to look like trunks. Others were oval or square. Boxes made with cowrie shells were rare and more expensive.
Snuffboxes were usually crafted from silver, gold, horn or tortoiseshell. Some of the most prestigious snuffboxes were French tabatières made of gold and sometimes glass. They could be adorned with amethysts, sapphires and diamonds and enameled, engraved or chased.
Sheffield, England, was known for its silver snuffboxes in the late 18th century as its silver-plating technologies perfected these containers. By the early 19th century, the silver industry in Birmingham, England, was producing elegant snuffboxes with images of abbeys and castles on the sides and top.
Another type of tobacco box was the snuff mull or mill. It was made out of horn or an entire ram’s head and topped with a metal lid, frequently featuring engravings and decorative hinges. These were fashionable in Scotland during the 19th century. The origin of its name is unclear.
On 1stDibs, find a plentiful range of antique snuffboxes and tobacco boxes to complement any home decor or furniture style. You can browse the collection by style, which includes Victorian, Georgian and Art Deco, or by material to find pieces in silver and gold.
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