U.S. Visitor Collects Snuff Boxes

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 2

U.S. Visitor Collects Snuff Boxes

Snuff boxes- are the first thing an American visitor to Christchurch, Mrs E. R. Meade, looks for when she visits a country. She has collected 80 from throughout the world. “This collection began 25 years ago when a friend visiting my home saw two old snuff boxes I had always had and suggested I begin a coileation,” said Mrs Meade. Mrs Meade also collects, stamps in each country she visits. “I have been. collecting stamps for more than 35 years and now have five drawers full but I have never put them into albums.” This is a big job she intends to start, when she returns to her home in Marshall, Virginia, in April. Mrs Meade has a 710-acre farm where she raises cattle and grows wheat and corn.

She managed the fanm for three years herself but decided “men just don’t like to work for women so I turned it over to my son and daughter and their families.” Mrs Meade has a large garden where she grows “everything . that blooms, as I love to have the house full of flowers.”. She is an active member of three gardening clubs. “The flowers in . New Zealand are even lovelier than they are. in England and I used to think. the flowers there were better than I had seen anywhere in the. world,” she said. ■ Mrs Meade is not ready to settle at home yet. She hopes to go to Russia some time this year but her most immediate travel plans when she' returns from New Zealand are to take her grandchildren to Disneyland.