Yep: The snuff bottles I find on 1900-1930s house/farmstead sites are the
same ones in the stores today. The are rectangular brown glass with
slightly rounded shoulders about 4-5 inches tall and 2-2 1/2 inches wide
with a wide mouth of about 1 1/2 inches. I don't have one here to measure.
All of them are in the time of paper labels. At Hudson's Bay Company sites
in the Pacific Northwest, you will find ceramic snuff "bottles" of
approximately the same proportions but narrowing towards the base. I have
never seen a snuff bottle matching your description but I ain't seen
everything yet!
Smoke.
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Smoke...loved all that info on tobacco, how interesting. Are there American
snuff bottles? Would they be clear glass or colored or more of a china
bottle? I have unearthed some very small bottles but of course they do not
have their stoppers. They are about 1 inch tall with an 1/8" opening. I
always assumed they were medicine bottles. Maybe they are snuff? Would
their
be any markings or identifiable marks?
Meredith MacGregor