Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tarin ya haɗa da akwatunan ado na Switzerland da yawa daga lokacin 1785 zuwa 1835. Geneva a karni na 18 ta yi nasara wajen fitar da kayan ado da zane-zane, ciki har da akwatunan zinariya, zuwa sauran Turai. Yawancin akwatuna a cikin tarin an yi musu ado da ƙananan zane-zane, wani lokacin ana yin su ne da sanannun ayyukan. Batutuwa sun hada da Napoleon ya haye gada a Arcole
, Shari'ar Paris, sadaka ta Roman, jaririn Kristi, da Cupid wanda Euphrosyne ya kwashe makamai. Wani rubutu a kan akwati ɗaya ya nuna cewa Nicholas na ɗaya na Rasha ne ya ba da kyautar ga wani Ba'amurke mai suna George Catlin a shekara ta 1845. Wani akwati kuma daga gidan sarauta ne na Saxony kuma yana ɗauke da hoton biyu na Yarima Fernando (wanda zai zama Fernando VII na Spain) da matarsa Gimbiya Maria Antonia na Naples da Sicily. Wani akwati da mai zane Jean George Rémond ya yi ya nuna hoton Louis XIV na Faransa. Wani akwati yana dauke da alamar kamfanin Jean-François Bautte da Jean-Gabriel Moynier. Snuff boxes tare da ƙananan hotunan sarki sun kasance kyaututtukan diflomasiyya na yau da kullun a ƙarni na 18 Turai; misali a cikin tarin yana ɗauke da hoton Francis I na Sicilies Biyu. Mahmud II, Sultan na Daular Ottoman, shi ma ya ɗauki wannan al'ada, kuma tarin ya haɗa da akwatin taba sigari daga Geneva tare da hotonsa a cikin murfin.