Oval silver tobacco box by Robert Brook, Glasgow, c. 1685, the lid engraved with a shield and the base inscribed "The Gift of John Rae Esq. to Joseph Allan"

Tobacco box with pipe holder attached, of carved wood: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu

Tobacco box with pipe holder, wooden with bone toggle, carved abstract designs: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century

Wood tobacco box (tonkotsu), oblong with rounded corners, carved with a fan and a gourd, irises and turtles, inlaid with ivory and pewter: Japan, early 20th century

Wooden tobacco box (tonkotsu), with a lid on cords, carved in the form of Daruma, with a wood and ivory netsuke and an ivory ojime in form of Daruma: Japan

Silver and silver gilt tobacco box with a square shaped body of bombe form with applied scrollwork cartouches: Dutch, Rotterdam, by Douwe Eysma, 1761

Elliptical brass tobacco box with moulded edges, the lid engraved with Our Lady of Kevelaer on one side and St Antony of Padua and the Christ Child on the other: Dutch, mid-18th century

Brass tobacco box engraved on the hinged lid with a representation of Christ with the ten lepers and on the bottom with a scene of Christ healing the blind man: Dutch, first half of the 18th century

Copper and brass tobacco box decorated with bas-reliefs of the battles of Rosback and Lissa and a half length figure of Frederick the Great: German, Iserlohn, Johann Heinrich Giese and Johann Heinrich Hamer, late 1750s or later

Oblong brass tobacco box with rounded corners and a hinged lid, embossed with a perpetual calendar accompanied by symbols indicating festivals and saints' days: Swedish, dated 1787

Tobacco box of copper and brass with bas-reliefs of 'Hanover' and 'Bronswyk', 1758 and medallions on cover: German, Iserlohn, Johann Heinrich Giese and Johann Heinrich Hamer, late 1750s or later