Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… Mary Coke reported that she ‘ went out to shops & bought several things’. She bought a snuffbox for one of her female acquaintances: ‘M rs Campbell desired me to buy her a snuff box, & I think she’ll be pleased, for I never saw a prettier … and the importance of the performance of bodies in the making of sociability. Whether snuff-takers were friends, mere acquaintances or utter strangers meeting for the first time, the offering gesture was to carry a degree of measure and …
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