Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a snuff-box.

1856		‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds.) Our Miscellany 23: Smiling Sammy, a ‘queer cuffin,’ who had taken more vipes, fogies, tickers, sneezing-traps, and readers, than any man of his day.
1866		‘Letters’ Letters by an Odd Boy 162: A snuff-box may be a ‘sneezing-trap’.