#snuff boxes

[ltwilliammowett]

Two enamel patch or snuff boxes, South Staffordshire, c. 1810

[embracing-the-ineffable]

From another of Neil's posts, "Some of Aziraphale's snuffbox collection:"

Hi Mr Gaiman,

how are you doing?

I was reading the Good Omens book when I found this:

"Like eggs without salt, you said. Which reminds me. No salt, no eggs. No gravlax with dill sauce. No fascinating little restaurants where they know you. No Daily Telegraph crossword. No small antique shops. No bookshops, either. No interesting old editions. No"-Crowley scraped the bottom of Aziraphale's barrel of interests-"Regency silver snuffboxes . . ."

So what does Aziraphale need a snuffbox for?

I do not see him 'snuff' tobacco so I thought he might use it to keep his travel sweets. I'm imagining it honey-flavoured with a tinge of lemon and ginger and in winter time he switches them for minty ones and on Christman they're butterscotch and candy-cane-flavoured.

Since it's 'Regency', is it a bookshop opening gift from Crowley?

You don't have to answer. I just like to ask questions and probably have my own story in mind of how things went anyway. I should write but I still don't let me do it.

Anyhoo I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane and boy oh boy I cried. Now I know why people cried. It's the feeling of missing something that you did not have experience and still accepting the aftermath of something that needed to happen, I guess? I loved it.

Have a nice day :) Bye

He collects them.

[frostedmagnolias]

White Glass Snuffbox with Shell Decorations

c. 1775

possibly by Meinhardus Hubert

The Walters Art Museum

[gemville]

A Lovely Swiss Or Austrian Gold, Enamel and Diamond Set Snuff Box, Circa 1830. The Central Rose-Cut Diamond Weighs 2.48 Carats

Source: Sothebys.com via Pinterest

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Snuff box, 1750-60, England.

[fallbabylon]

Coffin shaped snuff boxes and 18th C death certs and funeral cards on display at The Funeral Museum- London

[youryurigoddess]

For those suddenly interested in Regency silver snuffboxes

I have never smoked anything in my life, but still consider antique snuffboxes, cigarette holders, and lighters rather neat. Aziraphale — or at least the show iteration of him — is in a very different situation though. 6000 years of yearning and pining can do incredible things even to the literal angels, especially the naturally sensitive and anxious ones, right?

So the mention of Heaven as a non-smoking area baffling him enough to include it in his New Year’s resolutions gave some fans ideas. Since 2006 a part of the fandom firmly believes that both Aziraphale and Crowley are — or at least were in the book — smoking.

The same list was shared by Neil on his Tumblr in 2012, including this most amazing postscript (highly recommended read).

Which led to a fellow Tumblr user asking a rather direct question about it after ten years, in 2022:

Can’t believe that we had to wait so long for that joke to land.

Anyway, if you rewatch both seasons of the show carefully enough, you might spot the snuffboxes making an appearance in some of the objectively cluttered bookshop scenes. They’re also visible in this Radio Times exclusive material from a set tour — which is an absolute must-watch for other reasons as well.

And here’s a peek at a part of Aziraphale’s collection shared by Neil himself:

Snuffboxes appear repeatedly — and often as plot devices — in books written by Georgette Heyer, one of Aziraphale’s favorite authors, who famously combined Regency romance with detective fiction.

Most memorably, Judith Taverner, the main character of Regency Buck, pretended to take snuff just for the boxes and to make herself unusual (one of the other characters commented that the Queen also did that). The same book also mentions a snuffbox used as a means of poisoning people.

[ltwilliammowett]

Six naval snuff boxes, 19th century

A box with a shadow box lid enclosing a sailing ship; a painting on board of a naval engagement initialed "R.E.C."; a tin box with a port scene; two papier-maché snuff boxes with naval scenes; and a brass snuff box with a sailing ship. 

[escapismsworld]

These beautiful shell-shaped gold boxes were created in London and date between 1702 and 1742. The central bust, in fact, represents Queen Anne. ⁠

[gemville]

A German Gold, Enamel and Diamond Set Snuff Box, C.M. Weishaupt Söhne, Hanau, Circa 1860

Photo Courtesy: Sotheby's

Source: sothebys.com via Pinterest

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Snuff box, 1750-1800, England.

[ghostowlattic]

How to Play the Guitar

[mycatisblued]

Some fun Star Trek stuff I've gotten (Link)

[ltwilliammowett]

A silver snuff box in the shape of a fish, mid 19th century 

[crewdlydrawn]

Our lovely Angel was probably all like, and to quote one of my professors (from the end of my college career) who strolled past a dumpster, spotted a cardboard box with sturdy sides and a smooth rounded rim on the lid and just sitting there perfectly clean looking atop the madness beneath it and he went,

“HOT BOX! THAT’S mine.”

(Important note: aforementioned professor was also gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide 🤷‍♂️)

Hi Mr Gaiman,

how are you doing?

I was reading the Good Omens book when I found this:

"Like eggs without salt, you said. Which reminds me. No salt, no eggs. No gravlax with dill sauce. No fascinating little restaurants where they know you. No Daily Telegraph crossword. No small antique shops. No bookshops, either. No interesting old editions. No"-Crowley scraped the bottom of Aziraphale's barrel of interests-"Regency silver snuffboxes . . ."

So what does Aziraphale need a snuffbox for?

I do not see him 'snuff' tobacco so I thought he might use it to keep his travel sweets. I'm imagining it honey-flavoured with a tinge of lemon and ginger and in winter time he switches them for minty ones and on Christman they're butterscotch and candy-cane-flavoured.

Since it's 'Regency', is it a bookshop opening gift from Crowley?

You don't have to answer. I just like to ask questions and probably have my own story in mind of how things went anyway. I should write but I still don't let me do it.

Anyhoo I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane and boy oh boy I cried. Now I know why people cried. It's the feeling of missing something that you did not have experience and still accepting the aftermath of something that needed to happen, I guess? I loved it.

Have a nice day :) Bye

He collects them.

[empirearchives]

A Parisian Empire tortoiseshell snuff box with a cameo portrait, circa 1810, Napoleonic era

Gold mountings by Pierre André Montauban. The goldsmith Pierre André Montauban enjoyed a highly productive career in Paris between 1804 and [1819] at his studio in Quai des Orfèvres 30. He was described as a “bijoutier garnisseur��, indicating that he also produced gold mountings for works by other artists

(Lempertz)