Copper tobacco box

Copper tobacco box

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Copper tobacco box
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Copper tobacco box, elaborately engraved on lid and base with domestic scenes, inscriptions round side etc, all in Dutch and mostly illegible, oblong box with hinged lid, Dutch, 18th century

Details

Category:
Smoking
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A165220
Materials:
copper
type:
tobacco boxes
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

Parts

Piece of blue paper

Piece of blue paper

Piece of blue paper, with handwritten information on accompanying tobacco box, English, 1851-1935

Materials:
paper
Object Number:
A165220 Pt1
type:
information sheets