I am sure there are plenty of them out there, however I found one that is excellent and best of all…FREE, well almost. I stole my wifes near empty container ( 1 7/8 inch by 1 1/4 inch container of AVON REVERBALIST NIGHT RENEWAL CREAM… it has a screw on top and holds best guess about 5 to 8 gm of snuff perfectly without loosing not one pinch. thick and almost indistructable. you could chuck this thing against a brick wall and it would bounce off. NO LIE. I have tried to find it on google, but apparently it is no longer available. Nestled atop my wifes dresser amidst her ‘war paint’ etc is another one from avon too, same style, size etc. different color. I keep so much crap in my pockets, knife, keys, change, yada yada. that a good snuff bottle would be pretty much sand blasted by the stuff. but this container shows no ill effect thus far. it also keeps the scent from getting stale. check your wifes stash of such items and dont forget to clean it really well before using. the interior is none too small for using the pinch method. Hope this helps…graybeard the ever so cheap in missouri usa by the way, this is a sample size container so avon may have others they are selling now in a similar one. I almost forgot about CARMEX containers. screw on top, milk glass. they are great too. however they will break.
I have 3 carmex jars/cans ive used. The smell never comes out of that lid insert, but they work well for very tiny amount. I would assume a bandit or other plastic chew container would work fine too.
I use those little Carmel containers too! They work well for woodsy or camphor flavored snuff. Another good cheap container is an Artois tin. They have holes in the side but they’re covered Gil you flip the top open. Plus I can let it sit on my desk without arousing curiosity.
Guys, just to let you know, smash boxes are .59 cents apiece, and dont smell like face cream or carmex :)>-
And tose little 3packs of twist containers in the “travel grooming” section of walmart are just over a dollar each…
and don’t have any previous content that might not be good to put in ones nose.
@ Pot Poe… How can you compare a cheesy plastic smash box (which I hate) to what greybeard19 is describing?
@SnuffSniffer easily 1. They are dirt cheap 2. They are snuff proof 3. They are practicaly indestructable 4. You don’t have to rigorously clean them so you don’t get a cocktail of chemical crap up your nose 5. Most important of all is you don’t have to go wandering around the feminine hygiene department to find one.
The problem I have with smash boxes is that, if you get the smaller ones, the weight of the lid can tip them over when you are getting low on snuff. I have been entirely dissatisfied with the smash boxes i have purchased and will never buy one again.
Not trying to be a jerk about it, I just dispose those things.
@Dogwalla the smashboxes from snuffgear.com don’t do that (tip over when low) they are also harder plastic and close much better than the ones at Mr.Snuff. Its best to get your smashboxes from snuffgear.com
@n9inchnails Thanks for the tip =D
A fellow I met on another forum made me a tube on his lathe. It is steel on the inside surrounded by olive wood and has a screw on lid with an attachment to hang it on your key chain. It works as an air tight tap box. Wish I was savvy enough to show you a picture.
Sounds neat!
I like Toque tins to carry around with me. Otherwise, a Burt’s Bees tin works well. I have an old “Res-Q Ointment” tin that I washed out good.
thanks fellas, i actually bought a antique snuff container, quite by accident back in the 80s for 25 cents. i will have the wife photograph it and post it here. looks like a miniature powder horn. made from a horn tip it has a screw on lid made from the same pc of horn tip and was hollowed out and will hold approx 2 gms or so of snuff. i thought it was for priming powder or for percussion caps for a hawken rifle or something. best guess is that it was for snuff. like i said, once the wife photographs it, then please TELL ME IF IT IS A SNUFF CONTAINER. it is so rare i dare not use it. very fragile. pre civil war i’d guess. ps when i post the photo i probably will have snuff container next to it for scale.
What you are describing sounds like an old Scottish ‘snuff mull’, the Scottish version of the snuff box. As you describe, snuff mulls were made from the tip of a ram’s horn, most commonly, and old British snuff shops invariably had a wooden statue of a Scot, complete with his kilt and a snuff mull in his hand. They stopped being made many years ago but you can still get the the large ‘Ram’s head’ table box new. The full head boxes were traditionally used as communal table boxes in the London clubs and in the officer’s mess of most British regiments. They commonly had an array of snuff-tools attached on silver chains, such as a miniature rake to break any clumps up, a spoon and often a rabbits foot, either for luck or as a communal ‘wiper’.
If it is a mull that you have it’s very collectable.
The one below is an example of the full Ram’s head type - WoS sometimes carry them at a few hundred pounds a shot.
The container or horn tip container for lack of a better title for it is approx 3/4 of an inch in diameter at the base which has a turned top with a small metal ring for connecting to a chain or tether of leather? the length is about 3 or 4 inches long. this smaller end also has a metal ring attached to it. it looks very old . I would say it is roughly about 100 to 175 yrs old. i WILL have my wife post a picture of it with some items to give it some scale. it probably holds about 75 to 100 grains of ffg rifle grade black powder…maybe 2 to 3 grams of snuff or approx 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon. about half of a sugar packet or maybe a salt or pepper packet …I am very curious as to what I actually have. I would never ever sell it. I got it while living in Illinois in a place called SYCAMORE. it was at a flea market on the courthouse lawn. They filmed a movie there back in 1980s about G. Gordon Liddy. the guy who played him was an actor best known for his role on BAH BAH BLACKSHEEP…no idea as to his name. i recall him being on a good western series called WILD WILD WEST…NO not the one with the guy from fresh prince of bel air…the orig tv series from the 60s
Check out the WoS site - they have a large mull on their catalogue - it’s not the full head or pocket version but gives you an idea of what table mulls looks like.
I almost forgot to add the item description that I made from a deer antler tip. I took quite a bit of work to make and not that fancy at that. about 5 inches long and I hollowed it out with a hand drill and drill press. VERY HARD TO DO, NOT TO MENTION unsafe by any manner of working at it Deer antler is very hard to work with… It is a miracle I did not drill my hand. I made a plug for the base with a pc of wood from the yard debris. maple I think. this was a bugger to do as well. it looks very primitive and i would not give $1 FOR IT at a garage sale. but it was a work of love and experimentation. Yeah, I was trying to copy the one from sycmore illinois, not very well done. i made the mistake of trying to whiff the snuff, fine dry version, garrett plain,through the small tip. and it BLEW AWAY MY SINUSES…very poor idea. I THOUGHT I had blown my very meager brains out. dont try this at home kids. I will add a photo of this poor representation of folk snuff gear along with my well made one.