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<p>[QUOTE="buyjunksellantiques, post: 64322, member: 658"]I'm going to jump right in on this one. And I'm not in anyway an appraiser or the like; but I've had the fortune to have owned similar reservoirs like this and I'll share with you what was told to me by someone who knows their stuff. The "snuff" that was kept in these reservoirs was opium. That's what I was told. These sort of reservoirs are as common as straight edge razors to those that live in the Orient. Nothing as nice as your's. Your's would have been owned by someone in an upper "class". Someone moneyed. The residents of Asian continent thought nothing of carrying their "stash", it was completely acceptable. Like folks used to pocket their cigarettes, or have ornate boxes for their smokes. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of collectors for this type of antique paraphernalia. I was told mostly physicians. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share what I was told.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="buyjunksellantiques, post: 64322, member: 658"]I'm going to jump right in on this one. And I'm not in anyway an appraiser or the like; but I've had the fortune to have owned similar reservoirs like this and I'll share with you what was told to me by someone who knows their stuff. The "snuff" that was kept in these reservoirs was opium. That's what I was told. These sort of reservoirs are as common as straight edge razors to those that live in the Orient. Nothing as nice as your's. Your's would have been owned by someone in an upper "class". Someone moneyed. The residents of Asian continent thought nothing of carrying their "stash", it was completely acceptable. Like folks used to pocket their cigarettes, or have ornate boxes for their smokes. There are a lot of collectors for this type of antique paraphernalia. I was told mostly physicians. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share what I was told.[/QUOTE]
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