Powdered snuff is usually mixed with herbs and spices to be sniffed up the nostrils. It has long practice was seen a more "gentleman" that makes smoking tobacco. Snuff originated in America and became immensely popular in 17th century Europe. As the Perfume Bottles were popularized special to contain snuff, are usually ornate and often unique final, a collectibles most popular today. Designed to carry in your pocket, most bottles are less than to 3 inches long and an inch or two wide.
Many of the most beautiful and precious snuff boxes were made in China and based on specimens among the most expensive eBay. Most Chinese snuff resemble small vases with tiny plugs and were often made of porcelain, ivory, horn, glass or bronze, and overlaid with hand painting delicate inlaid with precious stones. The best hand were sculpted in porcelain and precious stones or carved and dug both hands worth of glass and much more than their counterparts in modern glass.
There respect good for modern snuff bottles for not turning their eyes to what is available to artisans and manufacturers of glass. You'll find snuff modern sell well outside their home region but be careful not to confuse the old and new in your ads. Some fans gather quality snuff were and are still manufactured in China, some better designs also came from Japan, usually of carved ivory or hand applied lacquer.
The Chinese have developed a technique of painting inside "their snuff bottles to prevent outside decorations to be chipped or discolored when struck or subjected to strong light or heat. The painting been applied with matches shaped bamboo sticks with a curved tip to reach the interior of the bottle, a painstaking process that lasted for weeks or months or years.
The best of Chinese and Japanese designs are rare and very expensive especially if the artist's signature, as you will see from recent results following Stores:
* Two enamel Antique Oriental Snuff Bottles fetched $ 10,000. These guys have been painted by hand and went at Live Auction.
* A snuff bottle decorated with Enamel Copper (Japanese I think) went for $ 4750.00, also in the Live Auction. What surprised me here was the surprising lack of detail given on the bottle, but the pictures were great and no doubt raised the announcement also very poor.
* Two 19th century Jade snuff manufactured in China seeking $ 4,250.00 and $ 2100.00 respectively.
Many other Chinese bottle 18th and 19th centuries search hundreds of dollars apiece, and a long list of Oriental snuff bottles, one does not reach its reserve and remained unsold.
Other Things to Know About snuffboxes
* Snuff Boxes rarely go unsold on eBay and often seek Silly-high prices. They are really the kind of thing you can buy at any price high or low, add your brand and get what you ask, and maybe a whole lot more. Remember that if two people bid at a fixed price auction that you're sure to find one more person in this world is ready for broad pay a little more to the article, perhaps much more.
* Snuff bottles most expensive are made of porcelain of the late 1600 to mid-1700.
* Over the hole in the top of the bottle, generally the better the quality.
* Another major sign of quality is the size of the interior, bigger is generally more expensive than the peckish.
* 'Overlay' is a description applied to bottles of many valuable and shows a different color, material or design has been applied over the base cylinder. The most complex and high value the coating, the more expensive the bottle is likely to be.
* Quality of glass bottles carved ivory or other materials, lies in the detail and complexity of the sculpture and quality craftsmanship.
* Snuff Boxes hairstyle had separate and sometimes their own spoon. A bottle with a spoon at the top is intact and at least two to three times less lines snuffbox partners.
* At buying, compared to bottle cap and a spoon, finer detail and control design. Very often, evidence from single bottles associated incomplete, sometimes innocently, to create a usable model, often fraudulently to maintain its value.
* If you can not tell Japanese from Chinese creations called "Oriental" instead.
* Keep bottles free of the intense light and heat, both of which cause materials to the sweat and the colors fade, and that leads to unsightly are capricious, and even tiny irregularities can deplete a significant value.
* Be on guard against the porcelain false "and" snuff ivory "which are generally Made From resin, hard plastic or bone. In light of the auction for ways to confirm the items are old, such as letters or recipes related everything that is offered.
* Bottles of ivory taken into account, especially snuff modern creations. The ivory is often imported illegally collected and how truly inhumane few people find acceptable, even the most enthusiastic collectors snuff bottle. Some countries allow the ivory trade period, in others of ivory of any age or form is prohibited to be sold or entering in the country. Thus, you could find to sell ivory snuff box to find it seized by authorities at the end of the buyer.
Avril Harper is a business writer and eBay PowerSeller who has produced several guides to making money from eBay, including MAKE MONEY TEARING UP OLD BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND SELLING THEM ON EBAY which you can read about at:http://www.magstoriches.com 103 POWERSELLER TIPS can be downloaded with other freely distributable reports and eBooks at http://www.avrilharper.com
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