Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… Collection, 1975. 1975.1.1.1536 Offering a wide variety of models and prices to choose from, snuffboxes entered the markets of both luxury and ‘populuxe’ 1 commodities and became highly desirable and popular consumer goods. Snuffboxes … was defined by Cissie Fairchilds to refer to more affordable copies of expensive elite goods. ‘The Production and Marketing of Populuxe Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris’, in John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World …
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