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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 26278, member: 103&quot;]Two comments: first, to use the word-of-the-week, the box is rather twee for a gentleman of this time period.&nbsp; If a snuff box, probably meant for Milady.&nbsp; Female snuff sniffers were not exactly legion at the time, but they did certainly exist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Second, there was a resurgence of patch use in the 30&#039;s into 40&#039;s.&nbsp; My mother had a box; hers, I think, was glass.&nbsp; The patches were hearts, half-moons, and stars, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly it was a regional thing then, rather than a known marker for the time of the Scarlet Pimpernel. </p><p><br /></p><p>(And wasn&#039;t Leslie Howard just Mahvelous in the role!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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