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I should also add, as not an expert, I do think the box carries some significance. It is such a perfect fit, it's so clearly designed for this snuff box.

Thanks for all the replies. Skepticism is always healthy in my view! Here's more photos, not reduced in size this time so loading may be slower. I also noticed an inscription I'd never noticed before, initially I thought the first parts wrote "Iyus" which turns out to be a town near Krasno...

Very interesting, thank you very much for the information!

Thank you for the responses. It actually comes with the original Nicholls and Plincke box, which is a perfect fit. See photo below. The ambassador was my great-great-grandfather, with lots of family papers of his time as both a foreign minister and ambassador in Russia. We don't intend to sell, but ...

A couple of clearer pictures of the hallmarks.

We know this to date to between 1865-1880. The city mark lacks any definition, but by the outline I assume it to be St. Petersburg. Does gold in general have less definition? Being gold it is thin and perhaps they weren't able to make deep imprints. Maker's mark is CE (I presume this does not signif...