Featured Cranberry Glass and Silver Pot

Good afternoon all,

I hope you can help me. Just having a look at some things but can't work out what this interesting little pot would be used for. I assume it would be some sort of salt pot or smelling salts? It's sterling silver dated 1903 and from what I can determine it was by Cornelius J Vander. Any help would be gratefully received.

This will be my first attempt at uploading images here, so please fogive me if there are issues.

 

Cocaine !

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.Just kidding !!!!!

maybe salt !

it's lovely !!

Where'd you find it ?

 

A friend of mine found it at his mum's house, and as he knows I collect coins etc, asked me if I knew what it was.

 

similar listed as snuff bottle

English Cranberry Glass & Sterling Silver Snuff Bottle by - Etsy

 

That would make perfect sense as there was a little pot of snuff in the box. Thank you very much indeed.

 

God forgive me but that was my 1st thought too ! Back in the bad old days that would have been perfect for that !

 

Could be a design in the little spoon section of that scoop...........!

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so...closer to coke than salt ..

 

Silversmith:
James Vickery
London 1868 hallmark
4 Woodbridge Street, Clerkwell (1851), 20 King Square, Goswell Road (1855) and 11 Lavers Road, Stoke Nowington (1880) [should be Stoke Newington as any Londoner would know]

 

The picture is none too clear but I believe that the hallmark has the wrong "h" for 1863 and that it was correctly identified as 1903 and J.V as Cornelius Joshua Vander by Kip Ray.