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Snuff bottles made of crystal or glass (and more rarely other materials such as agate or hair crystal) are painted on the inside using a narrow sliver of bamboo or brush, and ink and color. They were not, therefore, made to be used to carry snuff and are considered a separate entity in collectors' eyes t from the more usual utilitarian bottle. It is a difficult but rewarding field in that most bottles are signed by the artist and dated.
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I bought these Snuff Bottles on a ship while cruising the Yangze River in China. The work is done by artists who live near the river.
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Snuffed out, at the height of her youth.
Remember kids: look left, look right, only cross when the green man is alight!
I still press your letters to my lips..
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss.
I couldn't face a life without your light,
But all of that was ripped apart, when you refused to fight.
So save your breath, I will not care.
I think I made it very clear.
You couldn't hate enough to love.
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend....
Then I could hurt you in the end.
I never claimed to be a Saint...
Ooh, my own was banished long ago,
It took the Death of Hope to let you go..
A tiny enameled Japanese snuff bottle.
The table is covered with yet another jigsaw I could have moved it but I liked the background.
Eighteenth Century Snuff Mill and House built by the Wilson family. Originally water powered. William Wilson, one of the wealthiest men in Sheffield purchased Beauchief Hall and set himself up as a country squire employing a vast army of gamekeepers to protect his hunting and shooting rights (which at one time included Stanage Edge and moors).
A small wooden (mahogany?) snuff box in the form of a shoe, which I believe belonged to one of my forebears, Francis Light, who was a cordwainer and working in the 1850s when this square-toed style was popular. The visible extent of the image is 3".
This snuff box dates from c1735. It is tortoiseshell with silver and mother-of-pearl inlay, ....It makes me think of the dreamy ballroom scenes in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell :)
These two small snuff boxes are carved from bone or ivory. They are both incised in the "eskimo scrimshaw" tradition. Dates and places of origin are not known
"Variously known as Cross’s Mine, Cronk Vane Mine or Snuff the Wind, this mine lies on the road from South Barrule to Glen Maye and was worked from 1830 to 1840. The deeper of the two shafts was around 500 feet and almost solid galena (lead ore) was produced."- Manx Mines
I often pass this mine and on this particular evening the light caught my attention. I liked the way some sea mist was creeping over the hill and through the valley below.
Slid a little in Dynamic Photo HDR
Snuff box formed from a cowrie shell with enamel top showing a harbour scene.
For more information please go to blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/WAGMU_EM110/
Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon)
Pallid, petite, a tumour-fighter. Candlesnuff fungi may be small but they are a medical force to be reckoned with. They contain both anti-viral properties and compounds that are active against some human carcinomas.
With a white tip and black base, candlesnuff fungus looks similar to a snuffed candle wick, hence its name. The stem can become flattened and branched in a fork like an antler, hence the other name of 'Stag's Horn'.
It is very common and grows in groups on dead wood, especially on rotting stumps of broadleaved trees. It is often found growing through moss.
This fungus has medicinal properties; it is both anti-viral and active against tumours.
I thought this might of been Dead Moll's Fingers due to the lack of white tips but I'm starting to think it's Candle-snuff Fungi without the 'snuff'.
The Lorillard Snuff Mill now known as the Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill, is the oldest existing tobacco manufacturing building in the United States. It was built around 1840 next to the Bronx River to supplement an earlier building of the same function. The schist that makes up its walls was quarried locally. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977 and is located inside the New York Botanical Garden, itself an NHL(Wikipedia)