early Victorian era. From the outside the snuff box seems ordinary but on opening it the recipient would have discovered the painted enamel scene of two couples standing in a garden in explicit ...

The lid of this snuff box shows three views of a phrenological skull. Followers of phrenology believed that the shape and size of various areas of the brain (and therefore the overlying skull) ...

Squinting at the jeweled snuff box of Frederick the Great in London ... If tracking “Exquisite London,” I’d start in the Victorian Age with the Great Exhibition of 1851.

HEADCASE: Treen horse’s head and two more wooden snuff boxes, all sold at Woolley &Wallis. No such elaborate adornments - or prices - for the three treen examples pictured here, which are ...

A charming Victorian signal ... The Chartham signal box has been part of the village for more than 130 years But campaigners rallied to protect the beloved wooden box, which dates back to 1888 ...

A Victorian vampire “slaying kit” complete with wooden stake and holy water is set to fetch thousands at auction. The box including tools to fight the living dead originally belonged to a ...