rectangular with cut corners, the lid decorated in plum coloured translucent enamel over engine turned arched bands, within opaque white enamel border, framed by chased roses and leaves on a sablé ...

A rare snuff box from Faberge that experts feared may be lost is expected to fetch more than £600,000 at auction on Monday. 27 November 2010 • 8:30am The diamond-encrusted box bearing the portrait of ...

This snuffbox dates from 1810, from Geneva, Switzerland. The enamel lid was painted in the manner of Jean-Louis Richter, a famous artist of enamel ware, and shows a landscape surrounded by pearls.

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A collection of antique snuff boxes are up for sale at a Yorkshire auction house. Julia Matyear is pictured top with a presentation snuff box with the Imperial Russian crown. It is estimated at ...

Inside Vertu, a class of things that can't really be used but are extremely opulent or have an extravagant provenance. Austrian gold and enamel bowl, sold at Bonhams for $204,000. Courtesy Bonhams ...

Dr Heike Zech, a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, takes the lid off snuff boxes with Marija Schranz. 18th century Maltese lady holding a snuff box (detail). Respect and ...

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 ...

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 ...