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A garnet snuff bottle

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« on: June 03, 2014, 06:37:51 pm »

This garnet snuff bottle is 55 mm high without the top. It was won at auction described as a ruby matrix snuff bottle, but the description stated uncertainty.

Unlike ruby this bottle is inert under both long and short wave ultraviolet light. Use of the dichroscope shows no colour intensity change in the two image boxes during rotation . Hence it is single refractive (ruby is double refractive).

The snuff bottle shows a little matrix which is not present in the image.

I would  appreciate any opinions of age.

Best wishes PeterH


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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2014, 09:04:34 pm »

Hi Peter,

An interesting bottle. To be honest, I have never knowingly seen a garnet snuff bottle until you began posting. That is one of the great things about this Forum - always something new to learn, even though some of us have been collecting for decades!

Judging from the shape of the bottle and carving alone, I would guess the one in your illustration was made around the 1960s or 1970s. That was when a lot of 'novelty' bottles began to appear on the market, using unusual or exotic materials. There may well be a handful of genuine old garnet snuff bottles, but if so, they are hiding under different labels, since I am not aware of any recorded examples.

Tom
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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2014, 07:04:44 pm »

Dear Peter,
    I would agree with everything Tom wrote. I like this bottle. It looks like it would feel really good in the hand.
Joey
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