Box, snuff
Record status
Individual type · partial
Box, snuff is held by Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. Museum description: This is a rectangular, polished wooden snuff box with a hinged lid. It was used as a snuff box in the nineteenth century, and more recently to store sewing pins. It came from Somerset. The museum record gives place associated: Somerset. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Somerset
Identification
- Europeana id
- /2064107/Museu_ProvidedCHO_Museum_of_English_Rural_Life__University_of_Reading_3974
- Museum object name
- Box, snuff
- Holding institution
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the holding institution and a specialist reference.