Category 3: Personal Objects➔Personal Gear➔Smoking & Recreational Drug Equipment➔Container, Snuff➔Snuffbox

From F. T. Hill Museum

Accession Number 67-L-7

Date 1750

Description The snuff box is made out of whalebone from Witney, oxford England. The snuff box is circa 1750. The snuffbox base is black and the bottom edge has gold on it. The top of the snuffbox has gold paint on ir and some of the gold has flaked off. 

Materials whalebone paint

Measurements Height: 7/8 inches; Diameter: 3 1/4 inches;
Notes: base


Height: 1/8 inches ; Diameter: 3 3/8 inches;
Notes: Lid