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TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



by Sir Walter Ealeigh. It was of sufficient capacity 

 to hold a pound of tobacco, which was placed in the 

 centre, and surrounded by holes to receive pipes. It 

 was thirteen inches high, and seven in diameter; 

 formed of leather, and decorated with gilding. I am 

 indebted to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., secretary of the 

 Society of Antiquaries of London, for permission to 

 engrave an old wooden carved tobacco-box, also tra- 

 ditionally said to have belonged to Ealeigh ; and which 



has the initials W. K. conjoined within the lid. If 

 not Ealeigh's box, it is of his period, and is decorated 

 with figures on one side in the costume of the end of 

 the sixteenth, or beginning of the seventeenth century. 

 On the opposite side is a hunting scene. The lid 

 slides out ; the head of the figure who supports the 

 anchor forming a convenient projection to aid its 

 course. The English rose is below; and at the bottom 

 of the box a mariner's compass is engraved. 



Expensive tobacco-boxes were part of the outfit of 

 Elizabethan dandies. Simplicus, an upstart in Mar- 

 ston's play What you Will (1607), says : " lie go to 

 the half-crown ordinary every meale, He have my 

 ivory box of tobacco." Henry Fitz-Geffery in his 



