Untitled
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Burr walnut
Measurements
10 mm (Height); 87 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339642
Summary
Box; Snuffbox - Burr walnut circular box. Rotating lid with ivory topped pivot, finger and thumb hole for snuff taking. 'Thunga wood? 'Miser's Snuff Box', with a hole only big enough to take a small pinch of snuff. Bought from Wyndham Payne, Cheltenham, 17 September 1942 for 6s'. (M. Jessup).
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.