Green’s Dictionary of Slang

in boxing, the nose.

1857		Bell’s Life in Victoria (Melbourne) 5 Sept. 2/6: Tom again got home on the snufer-tray.
1858		A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 190: He turned round and administered a ‘chipper,’ which dented the snuffer-tray, opening the nose like a ripe pea-pod.
1860		Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: We are rather amused [...] that one of the combatants ‘napped a slogger on his snuffer-tray’.
1903		Bulletin (Sydney) 23 July 21/4: ‘Tom got home on the snuffer-tray, removing a piece of the japan, and drawing forth a fresh supply of the ruby,’ is vividly descriptive – there is nothing ambiguous about it.