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 ...
For sale: The silver snuff box stolen from Nelson's cabin as he lay dying on the deck of the Victory
A silver snuff box stolen by a sailor from Lord Admiral Nelson's cabin as he lay dying on the deck of HMS Victory is to be sold at auction. The 8cm horn-shaped snuff 'mull' was taken from Horatio's ...
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 ...
Admiral Nelson's snuff box - that helped start his affair with Lady Hamilton - has been put up for sale for £45,000. The tortoiseshell composition snuff box was originally owned by the Battle of ...
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 ...
A Russian imperial snuff box that the family of a Bulgarian minister claims was stolen from the diplomat's son during the Allies' bombing of Europe. Christie's The family of a late Bulgarian minister ...
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 ...
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