If you have the time, your best bet might well be to try and buy a second hand box with a plain lid and then get it engraved to your specification. This sort of thing turns up on ebay fairly frequently, and a jeweller could very easily clean, polish and engrave it.
"Reality," sa molesworth 2, "is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder."
I have one (it's my avatar) it's a very well made high quality snuff box but I use mine as a table top and it never leaves the house for fear of it getting lost or stolen.
Yes, it's lovely. Unfortunately, I don't think I'd be able to get away with that - SWMBO would want to know how much it had cost, and I'm a useless liar!
"Reality," sa molesworth 2, "is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder."
I have two Regnas gold plated silver snuff boxes. One has a jade top and the other has a spherolite rhiolite lid. The boxes are expensive but the owner will work with you, and the box would be the same price or perhaps a little more, if only involves the top of the lid, otherwise it would depend on how much it departs from the company's standared design, but the owner will still work with you
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