• Title
  Snuffbox made from an animal tusk
• Creator
  Daniel James Woodriff, 1788-1860
• Call number
  R 340
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1804
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  874585
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 snuffbox with hinged lid
  
• Collection history
  Presumably belonged to Lt. Col. George Johnston
• Scope and Content
  The lid of the snuffbox features a silver disc engraved with a coat of arms featuring a winged hourglass below the motto 'In Time'. Inscribed around this is 'The gift of Captn. Woodriff. R.N. Jan. 13. 1804'
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  Copy Print : R 340
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:a3201001
• Name
  Johnston, George, 1764-1823
  
• Subject
  Snuff boxes and bottles.
  
• Topic
  tusks
  coats of arms
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Stranger than fiction
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3269720

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