A snuff box can signify a lot, including being a reminder that there are many more people in the past who don’t exist in the archives.
Snuff boxes can be more than evidence of a fad: Symbol of colonialism, Puritan faith and more - Cambridge Day
The Art of Coining Christians: Indians and Authority in the Iconography of British Atlantic Colonial Seals, 1606–1767, Journal of British Studies
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Two Centuries of Costume in America, Vol. 1 (1620-1820), by Alice Morse Earle
Fashion Archives - Cambridge Day
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence: Breen, T. H.: 9780195181319: : Books
Conjectures and Controversy in the Study of Fundamentalism in: Conjectures and Controversy in the Study of Fundamentalism
Colonial New England Silver Snuff, Tobacco, and Patch Boxes: Indices of Gentility - Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Marketing Violence
Bradford's history of the Plymouth settlement, by William Bradford—A Project Gutenberg eBook
Commissioned Papers: Temperance and Prohibition in America: A Historial Overview, Alcohol and Public Policy: Beyond the Shadow of Prohibition
The Art of Coining Christians: Indians and Authority in the Iconography of British Atlantic Colonial Seals, 1606–1767, Journal of British Studies
Covenanter Witness Vol. 86 - Rparchives.org
The Great Puritan Migration - History of Massachusetts Blog