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Published / Created:: [18th century?]
Call Number:: LWL Min. 118 Object Room in Box 1b
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:: Snuff-box
Description:: Papier-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).
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A continental papier-mâché snuff box] [realia].

Creator:: Roucel, Louis, -1787
Published / Created:: [approximately 1777]
Call Number:: LWL Object 31 On display in Reception Area
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:: Louis XV gold snuff box
Description:: A snuff box, silver gilt (vermeil) over brass, with a portrait in wax of Madame du Deffand's dog Tonton. She bequeathed the box to Horace Walpole in 1780. It was displayed in the Tribune (Cabinet) in Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Madame du Deffand's snuff box with portrait of Tonton] [realia]