Snuff curiosities on sale

5 December 2023

The auction of the historic British American Tobacco Collection of Tobacco Containers took place in London today. This concerns an exclusive group of snuff jars and related objects, each object of museum quality and high artistic value. In the 1980s it was the BAT, a tobacco multinational, that created this collection. Objects only appeared sporadically at authoritative exhibitions, from London to Vienna. The collection has never been shown again in the last twenty years and has therefore been forgotten. Due to the auction, the objects will now be lost for years, spread all over the world. Once again a tobacco collection has been 'broken'.

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