IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This snuff box was made in London and ...

Appraisal: Gold Snuff Boxes, ca. 1820, from Tucson Hr 1. Watch Kevin Zavian's appraisal of gold snuff boxes, ca. 1820, in Tucson Hr 1.

A prized collection of valuable antique gold snuff boxes stolen from a stately home has been found decades after it vanished without trace. Dubbed the Fulford Thefts, the seven 18th Century containers ...

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 ...

So many beautiful objects large and small have been made through the centuries. Falling into both categories were snuff boxes, which were used to contain a product made from pulverized tobacco, which ...

Staffordshire potters in 19th-century England liked to depict humorous people in everyday activities. The figurines were the only way to see what a brave lion tamer or important political figure ...

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 ...

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Sir Robert Peel was Home Secretary and Prime Minister of England and he founded the Police force that we have today.Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, son of the wealthiest textile manufacturer of the ...

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