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[[File:Tobacco and calendar boxes 18th century Forum Marinum.jpg|thumbnail|right|An 18th century Iserlohn box (left).]]
An '''Iserlohn box''' is a [[copper]] or [[brass]] box for [[Snuff (tobacco)|snuff]] or tobacco which typically has an [[engraved]], [[chased]] or [[Embossing (manufacturing)|embossed]] lid depicting an allegorical or rustic scene or an image of [[Frederick the Great]]. The boxes date from 18th Century [[Iserlohn]] in [[Westphalia]] and the Netherlands.<ref name=Fleming>[[John Fleming (art historian)|Fleming, John]] & [[Hugh Honour]]. (1977) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. '' London: [[Allen Lane]], p. 399. {{ISBN|0713909412}}</ref>

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*[http://metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/187165 A tobacco box made by Johann Heinrich Giese (1716–1761, active 1756) of Iserlohn. Metropolitan Museum of Art.]

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