The box, which is gold with enamel highlights, is expected to fetch around £30,000-£40,000 when it goes to auction. Laurence Fisher, head of the mechanical music department at Bonhams, said that ...

A group of Victorian men pondering whether to take snuff from the box being offered by one of them. The gentleman in the chair looks disapproving! From "The Family Friend" published in 1876 by S.W.

REGULARS at a popular Nailsworth pub have turned their nose up at smoking and taken up the Victorian habit of snorting snuff. Drinkers at the Village Inn can buy the powdered tobacco behind the bar ...

Squinting at the jeweled snuff box of Frederick the Great in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, it occurs to me that you could make a theme tour called “Exquisite London.” It would feature ...