From the seventeenth century onwards, there was scarcely a household in Britain that did not possess some items of pewter: plates, bowls, tankards, spoons, candlesticks were just some of the everyday items made from pewter.
 
Pewter table top tobacco case, this would have been on a table in a gentlemans study for example and contained tobacco for his pipe,
 
Measuring: 3cm high x 13cm x 6cm