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Antique Brass Persian Snuff Box or Pill Box. Lid is Hand Painted using the Pearl For Sale
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Antique Brass Persian Snuff Box or Pill Box. Lid is Hand Painted using the Pearl:
$45.00
What Is A Snuff Box?
Any powder that has been prepared for sniffing can be considered ‘snuff’, however snuff most commonly refers to powdered tobacco.
The consumption of snuff was first documented in the late 1400s, and was greeted by a very mixed reception. Snuffing (inhaling snuff) was first witnessed by a European in 1493, when Friar Ramón Pane, who had arrived in the new world courtesy of Christopher Columbus, was living as a missionary among Haiti’s indigenous Taíno. Tobacco had been more or less unknown to Europeans prior to this, but the use of it rapidly increased in popularity during the 1500s. Inhaling snuff became established in England during the reign of Charles II (1630 -1685) at which stage it was acceptable for even ladies to take it. By the 1700s, snuff was the approved tobacco product favoured by the nobility.
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