[A continental papier-mâché snuff box] [realia].[18th century?]zxxPapier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer).Title from dealer's catalog.Acquired as having been owned by Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Note that this snuffbox is not mounted in gold.Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Ditto, red colour, mounted with gold. (Description of previous lot to which ditto refers: A curious old green colour papier mâché French snuff box, mounted with gold.)