with a hinged lid, the top and bottom with extensive fine niello decorations, length: 6.5 cm (2 1/2 in.), the inner lid bearing 84 standard, the inside of the snuff box with a Moscow town mark, 84 standard, partially legible assayer's mark in Cyrillic [V?].D with date of 1830, and a maker's mark in Cyrillic O.B.