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A multicolored diasper bottle

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2014, 12:26:44 pm »

Dear Pat, George and Tom,
     I give out snuff in synagogue all the time.
     Once I put the snuff in a beautiful red overlay on camphor, with a design of qilin dragons (#17 in my 1987 catalogue) and one guy said I shouldn't bring 'idolatrous images' into the synagogue. I said I would throw it out if he did the same to his expensive black silk coat.  It was Chinese shantung silk, and had a black on black brocade design of stylised facing archaistic dragons! He was Ultra-Orthodox and they wear a long black over-robe on Sabbath. He'd not noticed the design before. Or at least not recognised it. 
     I lived a few minutes from the synagogue, and went home and brought back #2 in "Dragon", and showed him he was wearing a garment that was no less 'idolatrous' in image than my snuff bottle.
I then said, "But it was ridiculous when you made the comment, and it is still ridiculous. You aren't worshiping the dragons on your coat, and I'm not worshiping the dragons on my bottle."
     However, from then on I put snuff in plain bottles to forestall hassles.
     Religious Jews who don't light flame on Sabbath, take snuff to get the same nicotine high through the nose as they would through the lungs with cigarettes.
     So Tom and Pat, you know another 'snuffer' outside of Mongolia! I  used to buy snuff in London at Benson & Hedges Tobacconists, but now I buy either in Davidoff's, 35 St. James's; JJ Fox, 19 St. James's;  or Bonds of London, at #330 Oxford St., depending if I'm on St. James's or on Oxford St. I tend to be on Oxford St. more now that Clare Chu is not in St. James's (her second gallery was around the corner from Davidoff's, and close to Christie's King St. salesrooms.), but when Clare Lawrence was located in St. James's, I was there quite a bit. I even almost joined Fox's Club, in the neighbourhood, so I could walk from my digs to Clare's, instead of needing 10 min. in a taxi from the Sloane Club.
Best,
  Joey
 
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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