Nov. 11, 1968 - Not to be sneezed at - New world record price &pound;23,000 paid for snuffbox at Sotheby's: Two historic snuffboxes, at stolex from Lord Rendlesham 14 years ago and found by interpol in vienna, were sold at Sotheby's auction in London today. Pawned in Vienna, they were taken by the pawnbroker to the Kunethistorisches Museum when he realized they were called in and the snuffboxes were returned to Lord Rendlesham six months after they were stolen. The sunffboxes were made in Paris in the 1720's for Louis XV, king of France, as royal gifts to foreign envoys Stock Photo