Snuffbox by Jérémie Pauzié ca. 1750 gold, silver, diamonds, sapphires, quartz Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Snuffbox by Johann Balth...

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MARK OF LOUIS OUIZILLE, PARIS, 1774

Property from an important European private collectionA gold and enamel 'history painting' snuff box, Guidon, Gide & Blondet Fils, Geneva,

This and all related images from: The Victoria & Albert Museum Porcelain snuffboxes from the late Nineteenth Century are considerably r...

In eighteenth-century Europe, Paris led the production of high-quality luxury goods. Parisian goldsmiths made a wide range of small, personal articles such as snuffboxes; étuis to hold sealing wax, tweezers, or utensils for sewing; souvenirs, which contained thin ivory tablets for note taking; and shuttles for knotting lace

1951 1929 Above, from Grace's Guide.  I stumbled across this firm while looking for something else entirely.  I've never encountered any actual tools made by this manufacturer, so it's another thing to look for. On the bottom ad, around their trademark, it reads "Established prior to 1702."  The original company, W. & C. Wynn & Co., had made small steel items including shoe and knee buckles, fire-steels, key rings, netting vices, steel snuffboxes, steel pencil cases, tweezers, bodkins, and so on.  They then moved on to the production of light tools. They celebrated their centenary in 1887, naming their relatively new premises "Century Works."  The same year, they took over R. Timmins & Sons.  According to Grace's Guide, they were acquired in 1969 by Balfour and Darwins, and the Birmingham factory was shuttered.  Arthur Balfour had merged with the Darwins Group in 1961.  That combined company was metal making firm, so it's hard to say what they intended to do with an old tool-making firm like Wynn, Timmins & Co.  Apparently nothing. Sell's National Directory of Large Commercial Houses and Buyers' Guide.  London:  Business Dictionaries Ltd., 1920. Update Jan 2024. I understand the company Smith Francis is still making some of the tools, Norman Smith used to work at Wynn Timmins in the 1920s I believe. He then set up a new firm with Mr. Francis in 1933/1934. They still make the nail puller & it's sold worldwide as the Priory brand. Update Feb 2025;  A real tool!  5" bicycle wrench  Thanks, Ski...