2-699-285 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Snuff-Box from Tom's Coffee-House', (1881). 'Tom's Coffee House snuffbox', said to have belonged to Thomas Haines, proprietor of Tom's Coffee House, London. The snuff box, in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, dates from the early 18th century. It was made of tortoiseshell and silver, with portraits of Charles I and Queen Anne, and in the centre the Boscobel Oak and the head of Prince Charles, later Charles II. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]