Snuff boxes date from a time when snuff taking was a popular habit, from 18th to mid 19th century. Snuff boxes could be exquisitely made and valuable; the cheapest were made from potato pulp.

M is the shaft box, and E is the shaft, to which motion is communicated, causing the grinder to revolve, and thus reduce the tobacco to snuff in the mill, a kind of bark mill. The whole apparatus ...

They fled on scooters in a matter of minutes. The two 18th-century snuff boxes were made by Johann Christian Neuber and Daniel Baudesson. Among the items stolen were two works from the English ...