I ordered some snuff bottles from Ebay recently and the posted photos of them I will have on here. I have a number of containers at home I have the snuff in as well I guess I need some sort of shelf for them. The chinese snuff bottles are very nice and I wont ever carry them with me. Way too nice for that. Tins and snuff bullets will do nicely for that. Anyone who has a snuff mull for sale, let me know. Wife would most likely kill me in my sleep for that purchase.
Those are some nice bottles, Congrats Sir.
Baby food jars, sans baby food label, plus snuff label. They work out very well, are cheap, and seal up fine. One jar, I had the lid on so tight, I had to use my pipe wrench to get it off.
I being a very frugal, no make that very CHEAPSKATE kinda guy have had to make do with lots of things and being a former civil war reenactor of the confederate variety have made items for myself to use in the field. Canteens, kepi’s, shirts, (pants were a big disaster ask anyone at that event…mooned the crowd, crying women and children and laughing men everywhere) uniform coats, (now these were not of the best variety or make, homespun comes to mind. and yes I did all of the items without plans since I am that cheap. Even made my leather cartridge box…way too big, so I called it the sharpshooter box which is was the right size for. Ok, I went online to see about getting a snuff spoon, DAMN, they want a lot for them. AHA says I , I will make one. Which I did and rather easily so I will share it for others who are not rich genty either. I went outside and found some of my rosebush cuttings since I cut the roses back. I cut off a small pc about 4 inches long and found that the inside when cut at an angle has a core or ‘pith’ to it, it is rather soft in nature the ctr part and so I scraped it out and used a nail file to round off the end of the spoon area and by golly the thing works great. It may look very rustic, but hey, saved myself about $8 so I can afford more snuff. Roderick, better hire some more help son…
@matsnuffs In baby food jars? Thanks for such a GREAT IDEA!!
baby food jars are the best thing ever for snuff. Get apple sauce, eat it, wash the jar, and you’ve got a perfect air tight container. I’ve got like 20 baby food jars in my snuff drawer. For carrying with you, I love the Patrick Collins wooden snuff boxes.
A few bottles, most of them loaded. 
Old WoS jars for loose stock, old claret wines cases and Indian carved boxes for the tin collection. Decanted as needs be into a bullet and a couple of silver boxes. Ive always been surprised how few members seem to use snuffboxes, for me its 50% of the fun.
That is such an excellent idea. I need to try using baby food jars for snuff storage! Though I wouldn’t mind having one of those Bernard’s snuff bottles.
All my snuff is in a military ammo can, with cardboard dividers.
Try looking up on EBAY auctions ‘chinese snuff bottles’ some of them are quite ornate. I bid too much on a couple of them and won. WIfe was none too pleased, but it was only about $6. Watch carefully for shipping costs, there are a couple of them who charge NOTHING at all to ship from china or hong kong. The three i posted photos of cost me total of $15 for the lot of em, 3 seperate auctions. Dont be afraid to only bid up to $4 I did a couple of times and I won the pretty bird covered bottle, think it was total of $4.25. They are pretty nice but I dont think I would ever use them for daily carry situations. If you do know someone who hunts blackpowder, get the percussion cap tins, perfect snuff tins. OR for a bigger one, get a civil war reenactor to give you an empty MUSKET cap tin…hold at least a can of W.E.Garrett sweet, 30gm lets say. Not sure how tight they would be, though, percussion cap tins are excellent. ALSO I think that the sewing stores still carry these nice wooden boxes made for pins, I use one and the thing only cost about $3. Good luck, thanks for posting the really nice photo of the snuff containers on a shelf. That was very nice. I am jealous!
I keep all snuff in it’s original containers, in ziplock bags, in kilner jars. I know that seems a bit excessive but keeping my snuff fresh and uncontaminated is it’s own reward. I use about 3-4g on a normal day so I fill up several small WoS tins with my favourites and a few new ones to try and that usually lasts me a week.
I have about 25 kinds of snuff scattered throughout the house and all the rest are in freezer bags inside a bin liner in a chest freezer. The bin liner is about half full.
I like the idea about keeping it in a container, then a ziplock bag. ALso the idea about storing in the freezer makes sense. Keeping coffee grounds in the freezer works great too.
I like keeping them in their original tins for the most part. The only exception is keeping a bit of Himalaya in a bullet for taking some to work.
@ graybeard19: The middle top one in your photo is just like the one that I won in a the historical contest a few months ago. It was provided by Dholakia, and I presume is of Indian manufacture. It screws tightly and holds a few grams.
Hi everyone, I am indeed a very fortunate man, for a lot of reasons. Today I got my first of three chinese snuff bottles. My memory is not as good as once it was. But I think it was about $5, that includes the shipping, which was ZERO DOLLARS. You can see it in the top of three photos I uploaded on the top of the page. This one is the one with the fish a coy which is chinese good luck symbol I believe. It was supposed to be an old one, made of coral. I thought…"uh huh, sure it is…chinese red plastic, coral red. I got it today,opened said package took it out and lo and behold IT REALLY IS MADE OF CORAL AND IS ABOUT ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. Damn, says I, what the heck??? I may be from northern Illinois near chicago and the corn fields but Damn if it isn’t really old and made of coral. This thing surprised the hell outta me. Weighs I think about 3 oz. As much as two empty glass shot glasses. holds, MAYBE 5 gms of snuff. I gotta get the back of it translated. All kinds of chinese symbols there and I for sure enough can’t decipher that stuff. I guess what I am trying to say is. EBAY has a boat load of these snuff bottles and some of the are sure enough the real deal. If Anyone wants to get the ebay seller who sold me this, I would be happy to pass that along. This guy is not only righteoud and honest. But did not charg me anything for shipping even though I am sure he wanted more out of his auction. My address is graybeard19@yahoo.com if you care to get the ebay seller’s name etc. I am honored to have such a fine snuff bottle in my possion. I will not be buying any more, even if they are over one hundred yrs old. Here is what it looks like, this photo does it justice. By the way, I think that the chinese have it right. A coral etc bottle is the way to go. this one holds I think around 5 gm, So it will not get stale, etc. Hope you like it.UPDATE…I think that this bottle holds LESS than 5 gm, I dont do all that much ‘snuffing;’, but it is already empty. ALTHOUGH…less is better, I mean if it does not get stale, better right? I think that the volume is due to how it is made and what it is made of…all in all, great container.
I also use the metal military ammunition cans. They really do work extremely well at keeping stored snuff fresh. Anyone interested in trying them, make sure the seals are good before you buy. Put some petroleum jelly on the rubber seal to keep it supple. The .50 cal cans are of a good size. I need to pick up some more. Locally, they are $15 USD a can…a few years ago they were less than $5 USD a can and lots of times they were just given away. Now they are more expensive because of their weight and rising shipping costs, surplus military ammo is shipped in cardboard boxes much of the time now.
Update on my coral snuff bottle recently bought on ebay, I had it translated and sure enough this is what it said Made with genuine Water Buffalo Dung Scented with monkey piss may make you sneeze alot Keep buying my snuff you round eyed devil Buy my snuff, YOU PAY CASH I was stunned, not what I thought it would translate to say.
I’m loving the red one… I’m still new to snuff so sadly they are in their original tins in a ziploc… It doesn’t do them justice one bit.