A rare snuff box from Faberge that experts feared may be lost is expected to fetch more than £600,000 at auction on Monday. 27 November 2010 • 8:30am The diamond-encrusted box bearing the portrait of ...

AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...

So many beautiful objects large and small have been made through the centuries. Falling into both categories were snuff boxes, which were used to contain a product made from pulverized tobacco, which ...

Before diving into the highly bizarre 2006 BBC Three sketch-comedy series Snuff Box, it may help to check out the DVD set’s “Taking Control Of Your Body” featurette, in which an eclectic array of ...

Staffordshire potters in 19th-century England liked to depict humorous people in everyday activities. The figurines were the only way to see what a brave lion tamer or important political figure ...

Dr Heike Zech, a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, takes the lid off snuff boxes with Marija Schranz. 18th century Maltese lady holding a snuff box (detail). Respect and ...

A bone snuff box confiscated from the murderer William Burke when he was captured in 1829 is expected to fetch up to £3000 at auction this week. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

What’s your personality like? Long before BuzzFeed or the Myers-Briggs personality test, there was phrenology—a pseudoscience that used the lumps and bumps of human skulls to tease out the secrets of ...

Q: You composed, scored and performed all the music in the series yourself. Was that always the intention? A: Yes, definitely. I composed and performed the music for the BBC THREE rock opera AD/BC ...

You composed, scored and performed all the music in the series yourself. Was that always the intention? Yes, definitely. I composed and performed the music for the BBC THREE rock opera AD/BC last year ...