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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 267879, member: 2844&quot;]The medallion is post 1950, you can tell from the twisted wires around the enamel. In older cloisonné those are thin metal strips. It could be silver.</p><p>I don&#039;t know if the little guy is ivory. Could you take a close up of him? Looks like he is holding a sheng (musical instrument)</p><p>The bottle looks older.</p><p><br /></p><p>A snuff bottle would contain snuff tobacco or medicinal herbs. The contents were powdery enough to be snorted up the nose. </p><p>Opium was smoked, or mixed with other things to be ingested. I have many antique snuff bottles with a residue of fragrant herb mixtures, but none with opium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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