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Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes For Sale
A Handmade Silver Scent Box or Match Case, Sweden, 1920
s Decorative Silver Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful scent box or match case handmade crafted in Silver.
Marked
Sweden, 1920's
Art Deco Decorative Box
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1927 Shargreen Cigarette Box Given to Jockey Bernard Brownie Carslake Shark Skin
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and very rare circa 1900 Shargreen cigarette box present to the Jockey Bernard Brownie Carlsake in 1927
A very rare good looking a...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Shagreen
Antique Asian Silver Betel Nut Box in Foo Lion Form Southeast Asia
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique Asian Silver Betel Nut Box in Foo Lion Form, Southeast Asia, 19th–20th Century
A finely crafted antique South Asian silver betel nut box, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Anglo Raj Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Dutch silver pill box, 1852
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch silver pill box, 1852
A Dutch silver small cartouche-shaped pill box with engraved symbol decor on the lid. The silver box has a hinged lid. The box is Dutch silver hallmarked...
Category
19th Century Dutch Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Capodimonte Porcelain Table Snuff or Dresser Box
By Capodimonte
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, antique Capodimonte porcelain table snuff box in the Meissen style.
With a polychrome enamel Bacchanalian scene on the lid, neoclassical...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Revival Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 18th Century Mennecy Figural Mouse Snuff or Patch Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare figural porcelain snuff box in the form of a mouse attributed to Mennecy porcelain.
Having a porcelain mounted lid with wonderfully hand-...
Category
18th Century French Rococo Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, 18th Century, Architectural Scene
Located in Bilzen, BE
"Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, 18th Century, Architectural Scene "
18th-Century French Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, Religious Architectural Scene
Ori...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Montesquieu Portrait Tortoiseshell Snuff Box
By Jacques Joseph de Gault
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite miniature of French philosopher Charles Montesquieu graces the lid of this tortoiseshell-lined snuff box. The handsome portrait was fash...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Antique Oak Snuff Box in the form of a Woodworking Plane
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A well-made late 19th or early 20th century decorative box or snuff box in the shape of a woodworking tool, a plane. The lid part slides away reweiling a hidden compartment. It was h...
Category
Early 20th Century European Late Victorian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Oak
$246 Sale Price
20% Off
Swedish Gilt Silver Snuff Box with Floral Motifs
Located in New York, NY
Swedish gilt 0.830 continental silver snuff box, beautifully engraved with floral and other natural motifs. It measures 3'' in depth by 1 3/4'' in width by 2/3'' in height, weighs 2....
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
George III Concentric Snuff Box Made in London in London by Joseph Ash I, 1807
By Joseph Ash I
Located in London, GB
An Extremely Rare George III Concentric Snuff Box Made in London in London in 1807 by Joseph Ash I.
As with vinaigrettes, concentric Snuff Boxes are rare. This example is circular i...
Category
19th Century English George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
18th Century French Walnut Wooden Snuffbox, "Le Patre"
Located in Delft, NL
18th Century French Walnut Wooden Snuffbox, "Le Patre"
French Walnut Wooden Snuffbox Titled "Le Patre"
Walnut wooden box with a scene of a landscape
Beautiful detailed cut scenery o...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Walnut
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
Maranao Brass Betel Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Decorated in relief and cloaked in an antique patina, this curious brass case is an early 20th century betel nut box, attributed to the Maranao people of the island of Mindanao, Phil...
Category
Early 20th Century Philippine Folk Art Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood and Bakelite brown and White color France
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood and Bakelite brown and White color France 20th
Category
1960s French Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood, Olive
$427 Sale Price
20% Off
English Porcelain Patch Box with Irish References, ""Forget Not Erin" Motto
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Forget Not Erin": A Coalport Porcelain Jewel
Golden Blooms and Patriotism: An Antique London-Decorated Patch Box
This spectacular antique English porcelain patch box, circa 1820, is...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
George III Period Sterling Silver-Mounted Scottish Snuff Mull With Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
Georgian (George III) Period, sterling silver-mounted (unmarked, but tested) ram's horn snuff mull having a hinged lid, Scotland, Ca. 1795. Measures 2 3/4 inches diameter at widest ...
Category
1790s Scottish George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Empire style handpainted Sterling Silver fine hand engravings Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with a hand-painted miniature with fired enamel by the painter Romano Buccioni in the Louis XVI Empire style of the second hal...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
George III Pocket Nutmeg Grater Made in London in 1802 by Phipps
Robinson
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Antique Tobacco Tin, English, Copper, Silver Plate, Lidded Box, Edwardian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique tobacco tin. An English, copper and silver plate lidded box, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910.
Pleasingly time ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Vintage Cigarette Dispenser Burlwood Box
By Davidoff 1
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a vintage cigarette box in burl wood and sterling with glass top.
Clever design.
Dimensions: 9 w x 6.5 d x 2.75 h close...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
A Shagreen Tobacco Box, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Shagreen Tobacco Box, 18th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Dimensions:
Height: 3cm.
Width: 15.5cm.
Depth: 6cm.
Category
18th Century Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$510 Sale Price
40% Off
Dutch silver pill box, 1869
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch silver pill box, 1869
A Dutch silver small cartouche-shaped pill box with engraved floral decor on the lid. The silver box has a hinged lid. The box is Dutch silver hallmarked...
Category
19th Century Dutch Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Pressed Wood Snuff Box Depicting the Battle in Paris of 30th March 1814
Located in Bilzen, BE
Combat of March 30, 1814. On the heights of Saint Chaumont where an Artillery post served by students of the École Polytechnique fought fiercely and was saved from death by General S...
Category
1810s French Empire Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Petite Indonesian Brass Betel Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite brass box was originally part of an early 20th century betel box set from Indonesia, one of several small containers that held the individual ingredients of a betel quid....
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Folk Art Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
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
Maranao Silver Inlaid Betel Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Decorated with silver inlay and cloaked in an antique patina, this curious brass case is an early 20th century betel nut box, attributed to the Maranao people of the island of Mindan...
Category
Early 20th Century Philippine Folk Art Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Silver
English Gold And Hardstone Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This 18th-century English snuff box is composed of a beautiful dark hardstone body encased in gold casework mounts. The box opens with a hinged lid, allowing snuff stored inside to b...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Antique English Battersea South Staffordshire Enamel Table Snuff Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine and rare antique 18th century South Staffordshire or Battersea enamel table snuff box.
The lid has a scene of two noble, young couples in...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Pill Box Round, domed in Silver Sterling Enamel on a guilloche pattern Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Giorgio Salimbeni Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Miniature by Renato Buccioni, Florence, 1978
Exquisite round, domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century Porcelain Snuff Box by Hochst, Germany circa 1740
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An 18th century porcelain snuff or trinket posx, hand painted with a gilt bronze rim and hinge. Made in Germany by Hochst porcelain with a gold pinwheel hallmark dating this to 1740...
Category
1740s German Louis XV Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Rockwell Kent for Chase Bacchus Art Deco Copper Cigarette Box
Located in St. Louis, MO
Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971) Rare Bacchus Art Deco copper cigarette box for Chase Chrome & Brass company, only offered in 1935 and 1936.
Rockwell Kent designed only three items for chase, all with the same young Bacchus motiff, and all are considered rare today. The other two were a "Wine cooler" and "Wine bottle stand...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
Majolica Tobacco Box Pot Jar by Johann Maresch, Austria, circa 1900
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This offer is for one of our rare Majolica items, an exceptional tobacco box pot or jar out of the sack series by Johann Maresch from the beginning of the 20th century. The beautiful...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Majolica
$306 Sale Price
55% Off
Large Exceptional Swedish Stone Box, ca 1850
Located in Farsta, SE
Large Exceptional Swedish Stone Box, ca 1850
Beautiful octagon-shaped tobacco box made of Swedish limestone.
With small fossils throughout the stone, and the knob made from a fossil...
Category
1850s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Limestone
Art Deco Silver and Enamel "Risque" Cigarette Case. Circa 1920
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered is an Art Deco silver and hand painted enamel cigarette case; often referenced in "sin" and other tobacco collectible circles as a "naughty" themed accessory. While it could ...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$1,295 Sale Price
30% Off
Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood brown color India
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood brown color India
Category
1960s Indian Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood, Olive
$332 Sale Price
20% Off
Edward Farmer New York Sterling and Dragon Carnelian Art Deco Matchbox Cover
Located in Ann Arbor, MI
Edward Farmer New York Sterling and dragon carnelian art deco matchbox cover Signed as shown. We believe the original stone to be Carnelian, but are...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Biedermeier German .800 Silver Snuff Box Domed Lid and Repoussé Pastoral Scenes
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Unusual 19th-century German . 800 Silver Snuff Box with Repoussé Rural Scenes and Fruit Basket Lid
A charming and unusually shaped 19th-century German silver snuffbox, expertly craf...
Category
Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Russian USSR Made Black and Red Lacquered Snuff Box, Signed and Dated
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Rectangular Black and Red Lacquered Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1971.
This tobacco snuff box is richly and colorfully decorated with a winter scene showing 3 people riding a sleigh in the snow being pulled by 3 wild horses.
This Soviet-era box has a strong and great condition red lacquer on the inside and fine gilded decorations running around the edges of the box.
The box is signed and dated on the front cover and with hand-written "Made in USSR...
Category
Mid-20th Century Russian Empire Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
18th Century Bilston Enamel Patch Box / Bonbonniere Circa 1780
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Bilston Enamel Patch Box / Bonbonniere Circa 1780, white ground, hand-painted floral motifs around outside, base and lid, white interior.
60mm high x 55mm wide x 55mm ...
Category
18th Century English Rococo Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
19th Majolica Parrot Tobacco Jar Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica tobacco jar with a parrot Onnaing, circa 1880.
Category
1880s French French Provincial Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Majolica
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Majolica Portuguese Palissy Tobacco Jar Manuel Mafra
Located in Austin, TX
Large Portuguese Palissy tobacco jar attributed to Manuel Mafra.
This tobacco jar is decorated in high relief of a frog, large butterflies, bugs, shells, a snake, a crocodile, on the lid a large shell with a lizard on the top, a butterfly and a bug.
Very rich decoration all-over the pot.
Reference / Page 38 " Portuguese Palissy Ware...
Category
1890s Portuguese Rustic Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Antique Georgian Papier Mache Snuff Box
Located in Newark, England
Featuring multiple Landscape Scenes
From our Collectables collection, we are delighted to introduce this Antique Papier Mache Snuff Box...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Steel
Early 19th Century French Carved Boxwood Snuff Box, “La Ste Famille”
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely carved circular snuff box in boxwood, French, circa 1820, the lid delicately rendered in relief with a devotional scene inscribed “LA STE FAMILLE” (The Holy Family). The car...
Category
Early 19th Century French Restauration Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Boxwood
19th C. French Carved Boxwood Snuff Box, PRINCE EUGENE AT HIS MOTHER
S TOMB
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely carved circular snuff box in boxwood or possibly elm (interior possibly faux tortoiseshell), French, early 19th century, the lid deeply modeled in high relief with a classic...
Category
Early 19th Century French Restauration Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Boxwood
18th Century Walnut Wooden Snuffbox
Located in Delft, NL
18th Century French walnut wooden snuffbox
French walnut wooden snuffbox
Beautiful detailed cut scenery, celebrating people
The text will be probably "rejouissance mamand" (festiv...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Brass Tobacco Jar with Hand Painted Blue Delft Lid
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Small container for cigarettes or tobacco. Its made from Solid patinated brass and its screw-of lid is decorated with a small hand-painted porcelain pl...
Category
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$237 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of 24 Painted Papier Mache and Metal Snuff Boxes
Located in Long Island City, NY
This diverse set of early 19th-century English painted snuff boxes, of various shapes and sizes, are finely decorated with a variety of subjects, inc...
Category
1830s English George IV Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Pot or Box 19th Century Majolica France Ceramic Green with an Circular Handle
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Kitchen box, Pot in Majolica. Vegetal Decor pattern. Green color.
It has been made in France circa 19th century.
Category
19th Century French Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Pot or Box 19th Century Majolica Gremany Ceramic Beige Blue
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Tabacco box, Pot in Majolica. Characters Decor pattern. Brown and blue color.
It has been made in Germany circa 19th century.
Signed Western Germany.
Category
19th Century German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Carl Auböck Nutwood Humidor
Located in Vienna, AT
Carl Auböck Humidor, Austria 1950s
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Nutwood
French Ceramic Jewelry Box Signed Lucien Brisdoux
Located in Miami, FL
A very nice quality mid-century French ceramic jewelry box or decorative lidded box.
This hand-crafted, hand-painted mid-century French box would look great on a small side table o...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver and Enamel Cigarette / Card Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine antique Austro-Hungarian silver and enamel cigarette/card case; part of our continental silverware collection
This fine antique Austro-Hungarian silver and enamel cigarette/card case has a rectangular form with rounded edges.
The front cover is embellished with an enamel panel depicting two Japanese ladies playing traditional Japanese instruments, the koto (13 stringed zither) and the shamisen (3 stringed guitar-like instrument).
The players are seated on the ground in an outdoor scene with traditional Japanese lanterns hanging from tree branches overhead.
The sides of this cigarette case and posterior cover are plain and unembellished.
The case is fitted with a push fit catch which when released reveals the hallmarked gilt interior of the hinged compartments.
The hallmarks to the interior of this impressive case include:
Silver quality/purity: Dianakopf mark (800 standard, 800/1000)
Assay mark: L (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
This variation of the Dianakopf mark was used from 1872-1922, determining the date of this piece as circa 1900.
Condition
This antique silver business card holder...
Category
20th Century Slovenian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Petite Indonesian Brass Betel Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite brass box was originally part of an early 20th century betel box set from Indonesia, one of several small containers that held the individual ingredients of a betel quid....
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Folk Art Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Smoker
s set signed FRED, Force 10 collection, silver gilt metal
stee, 1960
Located in NICE, FR
Smoker's set signed FRED from the Force 10 collection, consisting of a lighter, ashtray and cigar box in silver-gilt metal with the brand's typical stylized rope-style braided steel ...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Steel
Antique Commemorative Tobacco Keeper, English, Lead, Decor, Snuff Box, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique commemorative tobacco keeper. An English, lead decorative snuff box with tamper, dating to the Regency period, circa 1810.
Commemorative keeper crafted at the b...
Category
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lead
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with translucent fired enamel on hand engraving similar to wood grain. On t...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century French Papier Maché Snuff Box with Landscape and Figures Painting
Located in Milano, MI
French Painted Papier Maché Snuffbox 1800s. Snuff box of circular shape with fine painting on the lid depicting a mountain landscape with figures and herds crossing a river, a dove f...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Romantic Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Other
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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