Does anyone know of a reliable place to buy snuff spoons? I’d just as soon not deal with Ebay as they mostly want to use PayPal acccounts. I’ve asked Mike at Mars but he says he knows of no suppliers. Right now I’m using the spoon part of a 3-way pipe tool but it is too big for my needs. Thanks in advance for all replies.
Look at Snuffstore, link on the left hand column of the screen
I’ve said if before salt spoon or cayanne spoon. cayanne spoon is smaller.
Pen caps work good. Not as classy as a spoon, but quite functional.
The only way to take snuff is by pinching, until you’ve got that I’m afraid you stay an apprentice…
There’s always the Bavarian ‘back of the hand’ technique as well, snuffster, but I agree, the pinch is really the way to go.
Back of the hand, snuffspoon - its all the same; learn to pinch and use and enjoy snuff like our snuffing ancestors!
nah it depends on the snuff for me. Coarse snuffs don’t pinch as well. For instance santo domingo certainly needs a spoon to be fully enjoyed. Of course as strange as this sounds I like pinching from my spoon.
I usually use my small spoon for Santo Domingo, Princes, and some of the other F&Ts sometimes just becsaue the jar is too deep, but mainly if they are course. Schmalzlers I use my larger spoon. Fluffy German ones I sniff off of my hand or thumbnail, or pinch. Everything else, I pinch. Taxi and Ntsu I pinch them but don’t sniff them, I just shove them in in huge quantities ;-D So, spoons have their place, if for nothing else than scooping snuff into a snuffbox. I agree with bob, it depends on the snuff. Anyway, ebay is the best source even if you might try to workaround paypal. Otherwise you might spend the rest of your days scouring antiques markets and never find the right spoon.
ON a similar note. Does anyone have one of the silver snuff boxes from snuff store, or know of a better source to get one from. I would really like to see one in the flesh before buying it, but it’s not like I can find one in a store around here. They are around 57BPS, so I would hate to shell out that kind of dough if they are shoddy. Are they leak proof, would they be suitable for scotches? etc. If anyone has info I would appreciate it.
Ive not seem one but there have been mixed reviews about the qaulity and leakage of snuff, although some people say they are very good to be fair. I got a superb box form Walsh brothers for about £50 - a really excellent snuff box. If you are interested go to WWW. Walsh Bros.com and look under their pillbox section under the reproduction silver heading. Another member who no longer posts - Rommer - also got one and was very happy with it. Its suitable for all snufffs and is my favourite box in my collection.
I just need a Snuff spoon to get to the bottom of tall tins that are 3/4 empty. My fat little fingers are useless when it comes to digging out those last few pinches.
You could improvise one of those spoons used for long ice-cream.
@bigblue1, snuffster Many thanks! About all I have around the house that is the right size is the back end of my dinner forks. Not really classy. Need to start checking the cutlery displays at Big Lots.
I use the flat part of a pipe nail if I want a spoon. You can get a really big toot on it.
Plastic collar stay can’t be beat and fits in the wallet
I almost always use my Chinese tiger bone snuff spoon that came with my Patrick Collins Triple-Tech box. Very handy to place a pinch on the back of the hand, my preferred method.
The three way boxes from Patirck come with a little spoon. I use it on occasion and am trying to get in the habit of using it more often as I keep getting snuff all over myself pinching, plus the dirty fingernails.
that’s all well and good – if you’re one of the handful of fewpeople who were able to get one of those boxes before they apparently went into eternal ‘out of stock’ mode. if you know where one of those boxes can actually be purchased and were to post that instead, that’d be great.