Message #42476

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

What a great theme for collecting:
Modern Copies of Snuff Bottles From the George & Mary Bloch Collection!
Why didn't I think of that? 

Why for Heaven's Sake, do you not post bottles for advice, BEFORE you buy ?!
We could advise you NOT to buy the obvious crap.
Though I must admit, these are very nice looking examples. If I was going to collect modern bottles which looked just like GENUINE Chinese Snuff Bottles, these would be good examples to have. 

  To be clear, a bottle which was NOT made to hold snuff, is NOT a genuine snuff bottle.
So, the modern hardstone snuff bottles that Tom L (from Bangkok) posted and showed me when I visited him, and the one that Giovanni so generously gave me as a gift are genuine modern Chinese snuff bottles, made in China up to the present, for the Mongolian market, where people still use powdered snuff (as opposed to chewing tobacco).
   But bottles made in porcelain, or overlay glass or ivory, etc., and made just to be sold to unwary collectors, are NOT genuine snuff bottles.
 
Best,
Joey