Antique dealers call them by the workaday name of "smalls". You see flea market (sorry antique fair) stalls with glass-topped cases full of them, their custodians desperately hoping that the quirkiness of the objects will persuade some hapless collector to part with a couple of hundred quid for what is essentially useless. Auctioneers call the same things objet de vertu and their catalogues are full of colour pages littered with the things, their hapless owners all desperate that someone like them will find it hard to resist a gold pill box so small there's barely room for half a dozen aspirin. Or a case for matches, smelling salts, thimbles, or needles. Read on and learn more.
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Vinaigrettes, Vesta Cases and Snuff Boxes - Collectibles to Crave If You Have the Cash
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