Snuff Collection

Tobacconist - Treyer and Fribourg
The famous (and charming) 18th century tobacco, cigar and snuff shop Treyer and Fribourg at 34 Haymarket, London, SW1. The shop enjoyed the patronage of George III

Lilliputians / Sneezing
A couple of inquisitive Lilliputians climb inside Gullivers snuff box & sneeze & sneeze

Victorian scrap, young woman taking snuff Date: 19th century

Victorian scrap, old woman taking snuff Date: 19th century

Showcard, Kendal Brown Snuff, by Gawith, Hoggarth & Co, showing two Georgian gentlemen playing chess

Russian state jewels to be auctioned in London
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on a sale of magnificent jewellery forming part of the Russian state jewels, which were auctioned at Christies in 1927

Decorative ash trays, cigar lighters, snuff box and cigarette box. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Chinese pedlar and tobacconist, Qing Dynasty. The pedlar wears a bamboo lattice shop with handkerchiefs, ribbons, purses, etc. The tobacconist has set up a street stall selling tobacco and snuff

Gold-Plated Shears Date: 1880

Hardams tobacco shop
Renowned shop in Fleet Street for snuff and tobacco. Date: 19th century

The royal regalia of the Romanoffs
The Russian state jewels acquired by an English syndicate and sold at Christies Auction Rooms. The regalia shown are: the nuptial crown, a magnificent brooch, a green jasper snuff box

The snuff-box of the Romanovs
Green jasper snuff-box set studded with diamonds, which had belonged to the Russian royal family. Part of a sale of Russian state jewels sold at auction at Christie Manson

London Trade Card - John Brailsford, Cutler, St Martins Court, Leicester Fields. 18th century

The Last Pinch - old man taking snuff. circa late 19th century

Traditional London Tobacconist
G. Smith and Sons at 74 Charing Cross Road, established in 1869. Traditional tobacconist making personal blends and with a cigar humidor

Letter from J Watt, 1803, with snuff box Date: 1803

Murchison Snuff Box
The base of the gold snuff box presented to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison by Tsar Alexander II

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Ashanti implements and weapons
A. Sanko, musical instrument B. Cushion C. Ashanti Ministers state bag D. Fantee stool, cut out of solid block of cotton wood E. and F. War Greegrees or charms made of leather and straw worked in G

Cartoon, The Sailor and His Lass -- Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, holding his newborn baby daughter, with the midwife in the background. 1883

Old man reading the newspaper. Engraving. 19th century. Spain

The Portrait, by spanish painter, Luis Jimenez Aranda (1845-1928). Engraving by La Ilustracion, 1890. Colored

The snuff industry. Woman rolling cigars. France. Engraving, 1885. Colored

Maize plants and snuff. Engraving, 1841

Tobacco Stall in Market
Tobacconists stall in a Co-operative market selling cigars, cigarettes, snuff and other forms of tobacco Date: 1909

Making Snuff Boxes
Snuff box manufacture Date: 18th Century

War-Time Economies Saving Breath, WW1 Heath Robinson
War-Time Economies from Heath Robinson - to Save Your Breath. The Penny-in-the-Slot machine for blowing out candles. Wartime savings taken to ridiculous lengths by William Heath Robinson who suggests

The Tobacco & Snuff Shop, Unknown location, England. Date: 1960s

Snuff box in the shape of a WW1 tank
Snuff box in the shape of a First World War tank. Trench Art

Diamonds fluorescing
Murchison snuff box set with diamonds fluorescing under ultra violet radiation. Gold snuff box set with diamonds ranging from 0.75 to 2.5 carats, presented to Sir R. I. Murchison by Tsar Alexander II

Spain (1812). Snuff boix with allegory of the Constitution of 1812. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)

Tobacconists Shopfront
A delightful 18th century shop front with bow-fronted windows, at Haymarket, London, where tobacco and snuff were sold for over 100 years. George III and Beau Brummel, etc

Gentleman taking snuff
A mid-19th century Gentleman takes a pinch of snuff from his snuffbox - a very finely produced silhouette by Edouart. The description by the artist gives the gentlemans name as Mr Solomon Sheldon of

Origin Species, CH Bennett, grieving man - crocodile
A crocodiles tears. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a crying, grieving man from a crocodile. Fresh from the funeral of a friend this mans tears conceal an ulterior

18th C. Tobacconist Shop
A charming 18th century tobacco and snuff shop in the Haymarket, London, which has enjoyed the patronage of George III, Pitt and many other famous statesmen

Sneeze on Monday
If you sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger; sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger; sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter; sneeze on a Thursday, something better

Taking Snuff
A French gentleman at the court of Louis XV takes a pinch of snuff

Voltaire (Gleyre)
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET known as Voltaire French writer, depicted sitting rather uncomfortably at a table holding a snuff box, possibly ?

Tobacco Stall / Co-Op
Tobacconists stall in a Co-operative market selling cigars, cigarettes, snuff and other forms of tobacco

Aristocratic Couple 1780
She watches from beneath her parasol while he helps himself to a pinch of snuff; she moves her head carefully so as not to endanger her elaborately high-piled hair-do

Pyne - Highland Shepherd
A HIGHLAND SHEPHERD with his dog : he wears a pouch to hold his oatmeal or oat cakes, a mull of rams horn for his snuff, and a dirk

Medieval French Shopping
Shops under a covered market in France, including a goldsmith, a shoemaker and a dealer in snuff

Back Bencher Takes Snuff
Charles Nicolas Warton, MP for Bridport, taking snuff

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