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Bottles with some historical meaning or significance

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« on: April 10, 2011, 03:55:10 am »

Just maybe one more add-on comment to the IPSBs found in the Chinese countryside.  Contrary to specialists and expert's theories and popular belief, many of the IPSB bottles I have picked up outside the big cities have traces of snuff inside them, either caked on due to moisture conditions or still in powder form, so I believe that the 'masses' or 'poorer' folk actually also used these for snuff consumption/storage.  Apparently snuff kept on being used in the countryside until right about the Japanese invasion, in regardless which kind of container.  And somehow glass, even painted glass must have been as affordable a some of the porcelain bottles, or so I deduce.  I cringe at the idea of this happening to a 'master' painted bottle, but hey.. the evidence is there, at least in a few dozen of my bottles.  It could have happened to any bottle, I guess... What a frightening thought, imagine finding a genuine  ZLY bottle with scratch marks and cleaning damage. OUCH!!!  Shocked
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