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The history of the snuff box and its rise as a luxury collectible
This 18th-century status symbol turned the simple act of taking tobacco into a display of taste, performance, and theatre.
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 ...
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