June 22nd, 2021 at 2:07PM

fashionsfromhistory:

So Iā€™ve gotten a couple of questions about everyoneā€™s favorite 1740s does 1980s snuff box! (pictured below. Because honestly, itā€™s great). So I figured I would address the one that keeps coming up: is it really from the 1740s????

Yes! Yes it is.

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So this snuffbox is apart of the 2015Ā Bettina Looram de Rothschild accession. Pretty much all of the items in the accession are from past Rothschild family members, giving it a pretty solid provenance. Thereā€™s also a makerā€™s mark. Interestingly, the maker, Louis Robin, only operated for a short amount of time (1738-1744), giving the box only a small window to be made in.

THE MORE YOU KNOW ā„¢

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1,282 notes #this is cool now so people must’ve been shitting themselves in the 1700s#like those 15th century Chinese sunglasses
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