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Eminently collectable and, if you like snuff, usable too, is this sterling silver snuff box, from the reign of George III; the beginning of the heyday of snuff in England, later largely stamped out by Victorian fastidiousness.
THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
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