The showstopper at the Sotheby’s watch auction in New York on Thursday wasn’t a timepiece at all, but a pair of singing bird snuff boxes—two intricately decorated gold cases from the 1800s containing ...

Mystery has long surrounded the fate of antique gold snuff boxes which vanished without trace from the drawing room of a Leeds stately home some 40 years ago. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

A collection of antique snuff boxes are up for sale at a Yorkshire auction house. Julia Matyear is pictured top with a presentation snuff box with the Imperial Russian crown. It is estimated at ...

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Have you ever thought about purchasing an antique snuff box? Better still, one that belonged to Napoleon himself? Well you are in luck. The 200-year-old lacquered box that was used to house finely ...

Francesca Balzan, curator of the Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum, speaks about the venue’s latest exhibition – Snuff Boxes: From Accessories to Objets d’Art, which showcases an eclectic array of ...

Three Chinese porcelain snuff bottles that are being auctioned by Bonhams in Hong Kong on May 28. Each snuff bottle is expected to be sold for between HK$60,000 ($7,732) and HK$120,000.[Agencies] ...

Masatoshi Fukumaru is a third-generation antiques dealer with a gallery in Kyoto, Japan, and high-end clientele in the United States. A regular contributor for Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, ...