Circular snuff box

Circular snuff box
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Image © Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum

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Circular snuff box

This circular snuff box was used by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in 1879. Inside the snuffbox is a label that reads ‘circular vernis-Martin snuffbox mounted with silver gilt used by Henry Irving in the character of Claude Melnotte in the 1879 production The Lady of Lyons’.

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