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Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes For Sale
French Snuff Box, circa 1800
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Scarlet tole French snuff box, circa 1800, navette form - silver trimmed.
3.5" w, 1" h, 1.75" d
Whitehall Antiques is a family business that has been...
Category
18th Century French Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tin
$100 Sale Price
55% Off
19th Century Snuff Box with Intarsia
Located in Delft, NL
A 19th century snuff box with intarsia
A horn snuff box with a diamond-shaped embedded smaller diamond-shaped surfaces on the box in relief. The box has been a utensil and is in goo...
Category
19th Century French Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Horn
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
Antique Edwardian 9K Rose Gold and Enamel Cigarette Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Edwardian English 9-karat rose gold and enamel cigarette case; an addition to our diverse range of smoking related silverware.
This exceptional antique Edwardian 9ct rose gold cigarette case has a plain rectangular form with rounded corners.
This antique case has a subtly curved form proffering a comfortable fit in the majority of pockets.
The anterior cover is ornamented with an impressive enamel panel depicting four jockeys riding horses in a race, with stands full of spectators in the background.
The enamel panel is further embellished with the caption 'Cambridgeshire 1902'.
The posterior cover is embellished with contemporary engraved inscriptions in the form of a business card, denoting: the telegraphic address 'Shamefaced, London', the telephone details 'No 112 Avenue, 9890 Central', the name 'E Israel', the job position 'Turf Commission Agent', in addition to the address '16 Philpot Lane E.C.'.
The rounded sides of the cigarette case are plain and unembellished.
This hallmarked antique cigarette case...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
George III Gold Mounted Snuff Box for a Lady Made in London, circa 1790
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Papier-mâché Snuffbox, Painted with a Portrait of a Smoking Man
By Stobwasser
Located in Delft, NL
Papier-mâché Snuffbox, painted with a portrait of a smoking man
A snuff box painted with a portrait of a smoking man with a glass of wine on the background, possibly after a paint...
Category
19th Century German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Paper
Two-tone gold snuff box with bows, garlands and central medallion
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Two-tone gold snuff box with bows, garlands and a medallion in the center with floral motifs. Metal: Silver. Origin: Swedish. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 47.76 grams. Dimens...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$3,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box w/ relief figures, guilloche bands at the top
gilded interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with relief figures, guilloche bands at the top and gilded interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 102.91 grams. Dimens...
Category
Early 18th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,250 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuffbox with Belém Tower in relief on the octagonal lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox with Belém Tower in relief on the octagonal lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 93.44 grams. Dimensions: 9.5x8cm. Content:...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Cinnamon silver snuff box w/ engraved wreaths
bows surrounding a monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Cinnamon silver snuff box with engraved wreaths and bows surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 95.15 grams. Dimensi...
Category
Early 18th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
1800s Snuff Box of Ram
s Horn and Wood
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
c.1800s snuff box, ram's horn with wood inset bottom. Base edge faults in the horn-top edge also. With a tag: "You God Father Eckhadt (?) snuff box" and description. 2 3/8" x 1 3/8 x...
Category
19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
$85 Sale Price
41% Off
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
Sigvard Nilsson for Söwe Konst Sweden Teak Tobacco Tobak Box
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage teak container, vessel, or box was designed by Sigvard Nilsson for Söwe Konst Sweden in 1950s-1960s. The box features the rectangular form with rounded corners and circular s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood, Teak
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
Snuff box in guilloche silver
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with guilloche pattern and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Boar's Head. Weight: 46.21 grams. Dimensions: 7.5cm x 1.3cm....
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with reliefs, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with reliefs, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Cabeça de escravo. Weight: 69.91 grams. Dimensions: 6x1.8cm. Conte...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$300 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with engraved lid and gilded interior, George III period
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with engraving on the hinged lid and gilded interior, George III period. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 81.33 grams. Dimensi...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$625 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with raised country-scene card and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with a raised card with country motifs, hinged lid and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Mark: Absent. Weight: 41.28 grams. Dimensions: 7....
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$200 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with floral motifs engraved on the hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with floral motifs engraved on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve. Weight: 49.08 grams. Dimensions: 7cmx4cm. Content: 95...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$175 Sale Price
50% Off
Rectangular silver snuff box with cathedral panorama and relief back
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with cathedral panorama engraving, relief back with double herringbone stripe. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Mark: Absent. Weight: 56.71 ...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in guilloche silver with hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 68.31 grams. Dimensions: 8x1.9cm. Content: 916/1000. Assay ...
Category
Early 18th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique German Silver and Erotica Enamel Cigarette Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique German 800 standard silver and erotica enamel cigarette case; an addition to our diverse range of continental silverware
This exceptional antique German 800 standard silver cigarette case has a plain rectangular form with rounded corners.
The anterior cover is embellished with an impressive enamel panel depicting a nude woman with long curling brown hair, grasping a stemmed rose and lounging against a sheer flowing fabric wrap.
The posterior cover and rounded sides of this cigarette case are plain and unembellished.
This case is fitted with a plain rounded thumbpiece and push fit catch, which when released reveals two hinged compartments.
This impressive example of antique silverware retains the original gilt interior.
The hallmarks struck to the interior of this antique German silver cigarette case include:
Maker's mark: LR (untraced)
National mark/reichsmark: Crescent moon and crown (Halbmond und Krone)
Silver quality/purity mark: 800 (800/1000)
Antique cigarette cases such as this are highly desirable.
Condition
This antique German silver cigarette case is an exceptional gauge of silver for its type, exceptional quality and in exceptional presentation condition in keeping with age.
The enamel is in perfect condition.
There are some signs of wear and discolouration to the orignal gilding, as to be expected in keeping with age and use.
The hallmarks struck to the interior of theis German cigarette case...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Art Déco wood cigarette box, Italy 1940
Located in Firenze, IT
Art Déco cigarette box
Italy 1940
Wood
H 7 cm - 21 × 26 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tobacco box with Greek Macedonian sun symbol
wood-lined interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Tobacco box with the symbol of Greece (Macedonia) on the sun-shaped lid from the 4th century with a wooden interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Greek. Brand: Unknown. Weight...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,125 Sale Price
50% 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
German Neoclassical Painted Lacquer Snuff Box, Early 19th Century
By Stobwasser
Located in Spencertown, NY
German neoclassical round snuff box with ancient Roman scene.
Category
Early 19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
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
Guilloche silver snuff box with hinged lid
gilt interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver snuff box, hinged lid, gilt interior, George III period. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 48.85 grams. Dimensions: 6.1x4.1cm. ...
Category
Early 19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Mid-Century European Ceramic Tobacco Jar with Pipe and Nautical Motifs
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A rare and highly decorative 20th century ceramic tobacco jar, likely of European origin. This finely crafted piece features intricate black transfer designs of assorted pipes, inclu...
Category
20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Smooth silver snuffbox in elliptical shape with hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Smooth silver snuff box in elliptical shape with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 80.47 grams. Dimensions: 9x7cm. Content: 925/1000...
Category
Early 20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$325 Sale Price
50% Off
Smooth silver snuffbox with tilting mechanism on both lids
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Plain silver snuffbox with tilting mechanism on both lids. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II. Title. Weight: 84.63 grams. Dimensions: 8.4x5.7. Content:...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$312 Sale Price
50% Off
German Papier-Mâché snuffbox, 19th century
By Stobwasser
Located in Delft, NL
German Papier-Mâché snuffbox, 19th century
A German 19th Century snuff box made of Papier-Mâché with a painted scene on the lid
The size is 11 cm diagonal and 2 cm high.
Category
19th Century German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Paper
Rectangular silver snuffbox with rounded corners and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuffbox with rounded corners, hinged lid and embossed female figure in the Art Nouveau style. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Tit...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Smooth silver snuffbox with hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Plain silver snuffbox with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 167.28 grams. Dimensions: 8.6x7.6cm. Content: 833/1000. Assay Mark: ...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuffbox with raised plant motifs surrounding a monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with raised plant motifs surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 80.68 grams. Dimensions: 9x3.5cm. Conte...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Circular silver snuffbox with pressure system on the hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Circular silver snuff box with pressure system on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birminham. Weight: 60.66 grams. Dimensions: 6.5x6.5cm. Content: ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$250 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver Art Nouveau snuffbox with female figure
paper holder
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox in Art Nouveau style with a female figure in relief and a holder for rolling papers inside. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II. Title: W...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$350 Sale Price
50% Off
Rectangular silver snuffbox
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with engraved floral motifs surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 140.83 grams. Dime...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Guilloche silver snuffbox
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver snuffbox with bands along the length and support for rolling papers inside. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 90.08 grams...
Category
19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver snuffbox embossed with everyday scenes and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox embossed with everyday scenes and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: German. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 110.75 grams. Dimensions: 9cmx7cm. Content: 800/1...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$475 Sale Price
50% Off
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
Snuffbox white enamel sterling silve stylised birdr miniature on the lid Salimba
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round curved snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, above and below, and miniature on the lid of a stylised bird, hand painted by the paint...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, 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
Rare large Swiss Black Forest Tobacco box with Chickens 19th century Humidor
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
A charming and finely detailed 19th-century Black Forest–style hand-carved tobacco jar. Entirely carved from wood and executed with remarkable depth and texture. A rare large size to...
Category
Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Oak
19th Century Squared Spinach Jade Snuff Bottle with Unique Design
Located in Lomita, CA
This spinach jade snuff bottle has a geometric appearance with its squared silhouette and ledge that is ergonomically designed to accommodate a finger or a thumb while using the bott...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Jade
$1,163 Sale Price
34% Off
Rectangular silver snuff box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with fluting and wreaths engraved on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 59.01 grams. Dimensions:...
Category
Early 18th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Sterling Silver and Black Onyx Hinged Snuff or Pill Box With Silver Braid Detail
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A sterling silver Snuff or Pill Box with a hinged lid. The top has a quilted style top centered with a braid of silver and a Black Onyx Bead.
A compliment to any desk, or discreetl...
Category
20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Sterling Silver
Antique Edwardian Cigarette Case with Enamel Fox Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian sterling silver cigarette case, ca 1910. Hinged and rectangular. On front, horizontal enamel fox hunting scene with two hounds running ahead of whip-bearing man on gallopin...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Guilloché Enamel Portrait Box
Located in Dublin, IE
A superbly crafted circular gilt bronze box of exceptional quality, featuring a rich turquoise-blue guilloché enamel top centered with an oval medallion bearing a finely hand-painted...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
18th Century, English Georgian Lead Tobacco Keeper - Horse Finial
Located in Atlanta, GA
English, mid 18th century.
A great neoclassical example of an English community tobacco keeper. These traditional boxes are made of lead and design...
Category
Mid-18th Century British Neoclassical Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lead
A Gold Mounted Moss Agate Snuff Box
Located in Spencertown, NY
The mottled brown agate with translucence when held to light. The cover with a gold rope twist edge above hinged clasp with wreath and berry design above a cushion base
Category
Mid-19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Agate, Gold
French Hand-Crafted and Painted Ceramic Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful hand-crafted ceramic lidded trinket or jewelry box.
Mid-20th century, French.
Used as decorative item, this piece would enhance any shelf or tabletop.
Measures: 6 1/8...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$490 Sale Price
24% Off
Sterling Silver and Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and bone box. Antique Continental dark bone/horn fitted case with sterling silver mounts and central oval for monogram; originally a t...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Austrian Majolica Tablescape Smoker Set
Located in Austin, TX
19th century fine Austrian Majolica smoking set match striker harvest theme with a willow baskets, fruits and pitcher.
Category
1880s Austrian Rustic Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse
s Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 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 colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Snuff Tin, English Gilt Metal, Lidded Box, Relief Decor, Victorian, 1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique snuff tin. An English, gilt metal lidded box with relief decor, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1880.
Fascinating decorati...
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
KPM Shell and Flower Motif Cabinet or Patch Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
KPM shell and flower motif cabinet or patch box, The top realistically modelled as a clam shell, the interior revealing painted florals, and the blue undergl...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$452 Sale Price
34% Off
Small Walnut Snuff Box with Brass Accents
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A small walnut and wood box with very handsome details on side and inlaid in brass.
The top pivots upwards and does not come off. Easy to store the smallest of things and drugs. O...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Very Early 19th Century Engine Turned Silver Gilt Musical Snuff Box
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
1810s Swiss Antique Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silk
Mid-Century Modern Silver Plated Accessory Box
Located in New York, NY
This handsome early Mid-Century Modern accessory box was realized in the United States circa 1940. It features a volumetric rectangular body in silver pl...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
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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