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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I can't be in love if it's plastic to live on my own just seems tragic but we'll raise our swords high when our day comes you thought it was gold but it was bronze so ...

A snuff box used by Napoleon while on exile is on for sale for $57,869 - as collectors say he "snorted it like a 70s rock star.'' The French general is believed to have used the snuff box daily during ...

Two centuries-old snuff boxes adorned with diamonds and gold were among several artifacts stolen in a violent museum heist in Paris last year. By Lizzie Dearden Reporting from London The organization ...

The showstopper at the Sotheby’s watch auction in New York on Thursday wasn’t a timepiece at all, but a pair of singing bird snuff boxes—two intricately decorated gold cases from the 1800s containing ...

This snuffbox dates from 1810, from Geneva, Switzerland. The enamel lid was painted in the manner of Jean-Louis Richter, a famous artist of enamel ware, and shows a landscape surrounded by pearls.

The first episode of Snuff Box begins with a hanging, and this isn’t just a one-off event in the series. Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher star as a hangman and a hangman’s assistant, respectively, and much ...

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 ...