The V&A Museum had an exhibit here in Oklahoma City, and there were three 18th century snuff boxes. I bought the exhibit book, and found the info on this snuffbox very interesting! I thought everyone else may find it neat too

That is intensely awesome

Yea, I liked the bit about the snuff club being held where snuff was taken with strict rules of etiquette. Makes me wonder what this etiquette was… Anyone know more on this?

Very nice!

The Smithsonian in DC has quite a few boxes including a rasp and a Thomas Jefferson campaign box.  

@cstokes4 a promotion for his campaign to run for President? Or something of his personally? Or a military or some other political campaign? Was he a snufftaker? I know Prseidential campaign memorebelia is highly collectable. It reminds me of a pack of Michal Dukakis cigarettes I once owned. Those were the days, eh? I sold them on ebay a few years back for a pretty good price,lol.

It was a Presidential campaign box.  I think he was a snufftaker.  I have a pictures, will find them.  

I will make a new thread, sorry to hijack your thread @jakeorch

@cstokes4 after looking I can’t help but wonder if it was some later contender using the image of Jefferson to associat with himself.

I have no idea how that got in my pocket! (sorry, had to get that out of my system!)

Frederick William I was the creator of “Tabagie”, the tobacco smoking club, but the only rule was “drink a lot and smoke like a dragon”. The only known fact about the snuff-club that I know is: “scarcely improved continuation at Sanssouci — the snuff-club_”._ Looking at the this sentence, I don’t think there were any special rules.

@Filek, Welcome back. Nice print.

Oh that is too cool. Thanks for sharing. Looks like they’re having a good time haha

It rather strange that a snuff-club was created by Frederick William, since he has a piper. Frederick the Great was indeed a huge fan of snuff-taking. I don’t think he should take snuff anyway, since after taking a pinch he always had a brilliant idea. I don’t want to think that one of his ideas after a pinch was the partition of Poland.

@Filek, I don’t understand the apparent badness of the first partition of Poland. To me Fred II appears to be an awesome guy. Can you explain how he might have been shitty somehow; to help dispel this myth in my head? Specifically thinking of his inspiring essay “Anti-Machiavel”. Thanks!

Oops yeah his older brother was an ass. Nevermind!

Oops my bad again… Seems he did some bad stuff to Poland. A little sad considering his previous record. Still interested in any opinion here.

He was the main protagonist of the partition of Poland, and he tried to persuade the Empress Catherine II to his plans. In 1769 he introduced the so-called Count Lynara’s plan in which he proposed annexation of Polish territor. In 1772, Frederick was the leading proponent of the Treaty of Partition.