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Any value/age to these STONE bottles before I mutilate them?

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« on: February 06, 2015, 03:05:07 pm »

Hi folks, these are stone bottles of various kinds. I meant to post the glass bottles in the glass area and these here, but something seems to have gone awry. Apologies. As stated with regard to the glass ones, I am NOT a snuff bottle collecter per se, but rather have a bunch that I use in jewelry beading designs, so please forgive my ignorance and mistatements. Before I drill into the base of these bottles or otherwise mutilate them, I want to make sure none is particularly old or valuable. I did not pay much for any of them, but rather picked them up at tag sales or on ebay. 

The man snuff is made of smokey rutilated quartz with some gold colored rutile scattered inside. The monkey king(?) is what looks to me like regular clear rultilated quartz with black rutile, perhaps tourmaline. Both of these bottles show rthe man/monkey feet on the bottom, rather than a regular base. The last bottle is made of what is sometimes called ruby in zoisite or ruby in fuschite, I believe. I will put another couple of view of it in with my next post which has one other bottle, more elaborately carved, and my favorite bottle.

Thank you for your help and advice.


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