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 ...
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 ...