Featured Shiny little Boxes

Over the years I've obtained a few of these little "containers". Mainly from my mother and grandmother. Do they actually have a purpose? Pills, Snuff, or just something for old ladies to collect? Have about a dozen more. All kinds of weird markings. Would require a lot of pictures to show all the markings. Some are sterling. Others aren't. Not sure if porcelain or enamel on some. Comments welcome and encouraged.

 

Sizes would be helpful. The internet says this one is a miniature domino case made of bone. (I assume it's empty or you could have identified it as such yourself.)

Debora

 

You’ve got pill boxes, trinket boxes, snuff and patch boxes. And what look like a couple of vestas.

 

I have one that was my grandmother's. If I remember right, she kept that diet sweetner pill in it for dining out. She loved her sweets.

 

You've got a whole motley crew of boxes. I'd bet in addition to Bear's list, there are saccharin and pill boxes in there too. The long skinny one probably held a lipstick tube. That goes double if there's a mirror inside.