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A snuffbox made of boiled cardboard, featuring on each side a varnished lithograph of the leading figures of the Italian Risorgimento:
- Pope Pius IX (1792–1878), the King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont Carlo Alberto (Charles Albert, 1798–1849) and the Prince (and King from 1869) of Belgium Leopold II (1835–1909)
- the historian and Member of Parliament, later Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Cesare Balbo (1789–1853); the philosopher and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–1852); and Senator Massimo d’Azeglio (1798–1866).
Minor damage to the inner spine
D: 9 cm
The leading figures of Italian unification, snuffbox circa 1848
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