Snuff Bottles, how do I know what it could be worth, identifying?

[cogar]

That put in the mouth is a "Chaw of Ta'bacco" as said by the Texans!

Nah, ya don't chaw on snuf.

Ya put a "pinch" of it between your lower teeth and lip or cheek.

[bigwull]

That put in the mouth is a "Chaw of Ta'bacco" as said by the Texans!

Nah, ya don't chaw on snuf.

Ya put a "pinch" of it between your lower teeth and lip or cheek.

Na!!...you,d be as well stuffing it between the cheeks o. yer arse..for all the good it would do you...sticking it..in yer Gob!!....

[ghopper1924]

Right, snuff back then was viewed as a stimulant, not unlike coca-cola in its earliest days. Nicotine was the reason for snuff, and as for coke, well, the name said it all.

[xmelax38]

I don't know what I just pushed on here, I am on this little ipod (I have my likes & dislikes about it, but luckily this forum post is still here, lol.  Anyway, You all are making my day! I am getting a goid laugh and boy oh boy did I need that!

[Rauville]

One clue on determining the age of an agate bottle is to look inside to see how much effort went into hollowing out the interior. Some of the newer ones are merely drilled out through the neck.

The following is a an interesting article on snuff bottles:
http://chineseantiques.wordpress.com/collecting-chinese-snuff-bottles-%e2%80%93-magical-stone-pictures/

[xmelax38]

I will check that out. Thank you for the information.

[KC]

Combo of six pictures shows participants of the Snuff World Championship sniffing smokeless tobacco. About 300 men and women try to put a maximum of five grams of tobacco in their noses within one minute to win the competition. According to experts, not a big nose is the best condition to be succesful, but intensive training and a sophisticated technique.


Woman using snuff 1855.

Believe it or not, snuff use for women is up...especially in universities!!!!

[bigwull]

If you were to ask me..i,d say that ..her in the gilt framed pick....is picking a ..bogie out of her beak...rather than sticking something up it.....

[mart]

LOL !!  I will stick with a cold beer and no,,, not up the nostrils Wullie !!  Much less messy !!

[cogar]

That put in the mouth is a "Chaw of Ta'bacco" as said by the Texans!

Nah, ya don't chaw on snuf.

Ya put a "pinch" of it between your lower teeth and lip or cheek.

Na!!...you,d be as well stuffing it between the cheeks o. yer arse..for all the good it would do you...sticking it..in yer Gob!!....

Now Wuffie, iffen ya want to "snort" its called "sniffin snuff", ..... but now the EXPERT snuff users call it ......, (ya ready for this), ....... "rubbing snuff".

In West Virginia there have been "tobaccy chawers" and "snuff rubbers" long, long before "Hector was a pup".

And iffen ya don't believe me, click & read ..... this url link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19790603&id=HMksAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NRMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3770,603826

[ghopper1924]

Hmm, the article said that alot of "chewers" just swallow the excess saliva these days, without the traditional after-effects. Much less repulsive to the rest of the population.

Since most of us are interested in history to some extent, it's interesting to note that the behavior most hated by overseas visitors to the U.S. in the 19th century was the spitting associated with tobacco chewing. Contemporary accounts even talked about the aisles of churches being black and slimey because of it.

Here's hoping that stays in the past where it belongs!

[cogar]

 

the article said that alot of "chewers" just swallow the excess saliva these days, without the traditional after-effects.

Now I can attest to the fact of those "traditional after-effects" because I am convinced that is what killed my father after all those many, many years of "chawing & swallowing" his tobaccy juice.

He up n' died just three (3) days short of his 93rd Birthday.

Or maybe it was his 94th, ... I'se forget.

Unless it was those cigarettes he smoked for a couple years fore he went to work for the  C&C RR at age 16.   

[bigwull]

It could,nt have been the cigarettes??... ..their good for you.....