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Snuff:
"A type of smokeless tobacco. There are several types, used in different ways, but traditionally it
means dry nasal snuff, which is inhaled or "snuffed" through the nose". Apart from flavors, dry snuff also comes in a range of texture and moistness, from very fine to coarse, and very dry to very moist.

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New Snuff Boxes from Patrick Collins

Posted by NicotineRush on November 20, 2009 under New at Nicotine Rush, Snuff Boxes/Bottles

Introducing the TripleTech Snuff Box
from Patrick Collins

This is the Ultimate Snuff Box!

The latest and greatest snuffbox creation by
Patrick Collins.

TripleTech: Perfect for the three techniques that most of
us snuffers use when snuffing. All with one snuff box!
Pinch, Pour, and Spoon!

PINCH – Would you like a pinch? Just slide open the upper lid and enjoy a pinch of snuff

POUR – Prefer to take your snuff from the back of the hand or off the table? Slide the compact side edge open to reveal the hole that leads to the snuff storage area and pour some out.

SPOON - Do you like to use a snuff spoon? Slide the side edge the opposite direction to reveal the snuff spoon storage well. Take out the beautiful hand carved snuff spoon. Slide open the upper snuff compartment lid and scoop up some snuff.

Available in limited quantities in four different woods.
Mahogany – Padauk – Oak – Cherry
Dimensions: 2-1/2" x 1-3/4" x 3/4"
Just in time for Christmas! Your friends will be jealous. Get a TripleTech!

Now available at NicotineRush.com!

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Coffin Snuff Box Circa 1792

Posted by Nicotine Rush on March 13, 2009 under Snuff Boxes/Bottles
Sheet copper, raised, tinned inside and engraved
England, dated 1792
Owner’s initials ‘IAR, 1792′
Croft Lyons bequestTobacco was introduced into Europe from South America in the 1560s. Over the next 100 years smoking became popular, particularly in Britain and the Netherlands, although taking snuff (powdered tobacco) was considered more gentlemanly. Snuff-taking required proper etiquette. One inhaled a pinch in each nostril from the base of the thumb, used a handkerchief to dab one’s nose and brush one’s collar, and at all times resisted sneezing.
A large consignment of tobacco commandeered by English ships at Vigo Bay was sold on the London market in 1703, increasing its popularity. Snuff boxes became essential accessories for the man about town and provided lucrative business for manufacturers. By 1750 snuff boxes were mass produced in brass.
Snuff boxes needed to be light and comfortable if they were to be carried in one’s pocket. Coffin-shaped snuff boxes reminded snuff-takers that life’s pleasures would pass. This one reinforces the message with an engraved hourglass on the lid. They were sufficiently popular to be noticed by Charles Dickens. “‘You’ll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,’ said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.” (Oliver Twist, 1839)
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Old Snuff Boxes

Posted by Nicotine Rush on January 5, 2009 under Snuff Boxes/Bottles

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19TH C HORN SNUFF MULL. 19th century Scottish horn snuff mull, horn with silver and faceted stone lid, scrolled dark horn with lighter markings, applied shield shaped decoration (not engraved) hinged lid with repousse thistle decoration, capped with faceted pale champagne colored stone.

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19TH C TREEN BOX. 19th c. treen box, shoe form snuff box with sliding lid, brass embellished tacking highlights

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19TH C SHOE FORM SNUFF BOX. 19th c. papier mache shoe form snuff box, hinged lid with hand painted butterfly , bird and leaf decoration

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One of the finest surviving pieces of English enamel work and the most remarkable English piece commemorating a tontine is a snuffbox by Jasper Cunst and the great enameller George Michael Moser, London, 1764-65. A tontine was a financial arrangement whereby a group of people invested capital and received the interest as income which increased with the death of each participant, the residual capital going to the last surviving member, in this case Sir Charles Price whose arms are engraved on the cover. The interior of the rim of the gold box is set with an enamel plaque depicting a wooded glade with a mourning figure and Time flanking a memorial inscribed with the names and dates of death of the members of the tontine. Another extravagant gold box decorated with enamel scenes of Don Quixote attributed to Moser has a hinged base which opens to reveal a watch with a white face set with emeralds and bordered by rubies.

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