Leather snuff box
Snuff is sensitive to moisture so the most important feature of
a snuff box is that its lid fits tightly. During the
late 1700s a Scot, James Sandy, designed a wooden box with a
hinge made of rollers that extended from the back and lid of the
box and were attached to a central rod. Called Laurencekirk
boxes after the village where Sandy lived, his snuffboxes were very
popular and frequently copied.
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DMSW109a-c
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