Seven of the 24 so-called ‘Fulford Thefts’ – worth more than £100,000 and dating back to 1770 – have been returned to their rightful home after being stolen in 1981. The boxes, a mix of French, Swiss ...
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 ...
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An ornate collection of seven antique gold snuff boxes has been returned to a stately home – 40 years after they were stolen during a night-time raid. The 18th century containers had not been seen ...
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 ...
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 ...
Northsider was eminent academic, first secretary of the RIA and physician general to the British army in Ireland ROSS O’Carroll-Kelly types might find it “hord” to believe, “roysh”, but the first ...
FEW younger readers will be familiar with, let alone have used, snuff – a powder made of ground dried tobacco leaves – which was widely used in polite European society from the 18th until the mid-20th ...
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The boxes, thought to be worth over £100,000, are a mix of French, Swiss and German craftmanship A prized collection of valuable antique gold snuff boxes stolen from a stately home has been found ...
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