They will view artefacts like an ancient Celtic firedog which would have stood next to the hearth in an ancient roundhouse, a gold snuff box given to explorer HM Stanley by Queen Victoria after he found Livingstone, and a porcelain tureen and dish which was made in China in about 1760, part of a dinner service for a wealthy European family.

BBC: Wales, Land of the Red Dragon: Chongqing exhibition

After nagging one of his fellow patrons to borrow a diamond-encrusted snuff box, the owner succumbed, but not before scribbling in its lid the Greek letters phi and rho, or "Fie, Rowe!"

BBC: The pun conundrum

Easily the oddest piece in the catalog: a rare 1858 Scottish snuff mull (the Scottish counterpart to the snuff box), made from a ram's head.

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