Page 723 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

A circa 1910 opium box bearing the Tian Bao
mark. Despite not appearing so, this is solid
silver - it is merely badly tarnished. A portable
opium box was as necessary to some Chinese
as snuff boxes were to 19th century Western
gentlemen.

Image courtesy of Tenga
Antiques, Temple City, CA;
C o w a n ’ s A u c t i o n s ,
Cincinnati, USA

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