Just found out there’s a snuff museum in Grafenau, Germany that has over 1,500 different snuff containers, an overview of snuff making there and even a 30kg snuff glass whatever that is. I couldn’t find any more info or pictures on it but it sounds awesome. Anyone heard about it before or know anything about it?
Edit : Just found a load of pics. Looks amazing.
I really need to tell my brother to pick me up some snuff next time he goes to germany, especially since he goes at least once a year to see his cousins.
Besides the museum in Grafenau, there’s a Schnupftabak-Musum in Regensburg and a Museum of Snuff in Poland.
Great find. Love those pictures.
@Harlequin I’ve had it done twice now by two different folks, they’ll bring back the same brands you can buy now from MrSnuff or whoever you order from. I was kind of hoping for a surprise but it didn’t happen.
By 30kg snuff glass, they probably mean snuff bottle. That red glass one on the wall may be it. Clearly not one for the pocket or the table top! Thanks for this posting, now it is on my list of places to visit in this region. I have a nice little mental tour worked out.
@Xander Yeah I found the pictures after. It probably is the red one, but I can also see a clear glass one to the right of the Schmalzer maker that pretty big.
I’m also curious as to what 1,500 snuff containers means, I guess it could mean glass bottles or actual snuff tins, I think there’s around 1,500 known snuffs so it could be that.
You can see it better here, this is where the pictures are from http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.geo-reisecommunity.de/bild/294924/Grafenau-Deutschland-Schnupftabakproduzent&usg=ALkJrhi27d-zKnkc6FVXPqVLpILQCFk2yQ#gallerySlider
I’m certain it means snuff bottles, mostly German style. There is a picture of an large collection on Bernard’s website. They all won’t be glass, some will be porcellain, and some stone.