“Possibly my most unusual box is this double ended one, made of some heavy base metal:” That’s a beauty, Tony. I wonder if it’s bronze.
No, not bronze. More like iron or some nickel alloy. It’s quite heavy.
Whatever it is it’s a treasure.
I went to Walmart not long ago, looking for something to use for a snuff container, like a small smash box. In the drug section, I found a little pill holder that is 2 compartments, with one side marked AM, the other PM. It’s perfect size for snuff, and has a snap top, connected in the center. With my new Indian snuffs, I poured all the fallout of the Madras Snuff into one side, and the other side I put the Himalaya Snuff. Wrote the names on a piece of paper, cut into a square and taped them over the AM/PM. It holds a perfect amount, does not spill, and small, and was only a dollar.