AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...
What’s your personality like? Long before BuzzFeed or the Myers-Briggs personality test, there was phrenology—a pseudoscience that used the lumps and bumps of human skulls to tease out the secrets of ...
The Regency dandy, Beau Brummell, was a great fan of snuff, and also a known collector of snuff boxes. He could achieve the trick of opening his snuff box and then transferring the snuff from box to ...
Mystery has long surrounded the fate of antique gold snuff boxes which vanished without trace from the drawing room of a Leeds stately home some 40 years ago. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...
The boxes, thought to be worth over £100,000, are a mix of French, Swiss and German craftmanship A prized collection of valuable antique gold snuff boxes stolen from a stately home has been found ...
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