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Less significantly, the novel spawned a dizzying explosion of "Tomitudes," or spin-offs, including card games, cheap engravings, jigsaw puzzles, wall hangings, snuffboxes, fountain pens and eponymous products such as "Uncle Tom's Shrinkable Woolen Stockings."

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And we in turn, in reciprocity or revenge, shower our loved ones with antique sword-sticks and baking-soda bottle-rockets, lamp shades in the form of Betty Boop, battered snuffboxes and coffee-table books of chickens.

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One day, boredom made me flick through one featuring antique snuffboxes and miniatures.

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Inside the case were snuffboxes, hatpins, razors with bone handles, saltcellars with their dainty sterling silver spoons, and various pieces of jewelry recently acquired at an estate sale.

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There were engraved bronze wine vessels and bells dating to 700 B.C.; porcelain urns collected by Tang emperors; lacquerware snuffboxes used by Ming empresses; a jade cabbage from the last dynasty, the Ching.

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Only on a small table in the corner was there a litter of odds and ends — lacquered snuffboxes, agate brooches, and the like — which looked as though they might include something interesting.

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Only on a small table in the corner was there a litter of odds and ends — lacquered snuffboxes, agate brooches, and the like — which looked as though they might include something interesting.

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Wandering around during the interval, I saw some lapis lazuli snuffboxes that were that same wonderful indigo, and I thought, "Good, the color exists in the external world."

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But in the second half I got restless, and when I saw the snuffboxes again, they were no longer indigo — they were blue, mauve, pink.

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Their supplies came in small tins like miniature jerry cans, which was a little disappointing - I had hoped for exquisite enamelled snuffboxes and more of a flourish about the sniffing.

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