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Show m High Prices for Old Snuff Boxes. H When ono notices tho oxtraordlnnr- M ily largo sums which liavo been spent H on the acquisition of snuff boxes ono is B less surprised that tho habit of snuff- HBfl taking has boon abandoned than ono M would bo if It wero to bo revived. Two- thirds of tho Hawkins salo, composed B mainly of snuff boxes', yields tho enor- " mous amount of 127,000, and of this tho 1,050 paid for a Louis XIY oval gold box, inlaid with six plaques and BBM pninted with classical themes, is an HBfl' oxamplo of tho attractions which theso H objects do vertu havo always oxer- clsed over purchasers of antlqultlos. London Olobo. |