Featured Opium Pillow help, Chinese Kanji translation

Hi all,
I hope all is well here and all you knowledgeable people are in good body and good health! I bought this opium pillow today and I'm trying to find out what it says on the bottom =translation. In short, I hope it don't say "this is a fake made in 2018" but hey I'm not out a ton of money so if it does, lesson learned. Anyone have any idea? I'll leave a link so you can see other opium pillows. Much appreciation!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...Xopium+pillow.TRS0&_nkw=opium+pillow&_sacat=0

 

While you're waiting, you can try the gotheborg.com site. Click on Chinese marks on the left.

 

With the top character in both columns mostly missing, it's tough to be exact. The colorway is not earlier than the mid-20th century IMHO. The Chinese are prolific users of "honorific" markings. These are not "fakes" so much as misleading for the uninitiated.

The 4 characters that are complete appear in a number of marks shown on Gotheborg - meaning usually interpreted as "period made."

 

Ive not seen one that wasnt one solid piece so Im thinking more a decor item. Charming nonetheless.

 

Modern decorative item, agree.

 

Yep. Not a fake, just not old and not made to look old.

 

Great I'll check out that website, I had forgotten all about it! Yeah, I always see these as one piece items myself. As the story goes, people would smoke their opium and place their wallet and other items inside the pillow. I find it hard to believe they actually used these as pillows but who knows what goes on in the mind of an under the influence opium addict?!!!

 

This isn't really an opium pillow, they didn't really look like that ..it is a box in the form of a Chinese pillow, but pillows weren't made as boxes, they were solid.

This is really just a decorative box in the shape of a pillow with the word "opium" added as a sales aid.