Topic: Intaglio pill or snuff box? help please

[brucebanner]

Hello there, anyone have any thoughts on this please, it's all hand facet cut with wear to the base which is flat

I'm wondering if it's for snuff or a pill pot?, the lid looks a slightly different colour to the base.

It's tiny being 1 1/2 inches in height and depth and 2 inches in length.

Regards Chris.

[Lustrousstone]

I think the people are pressed then acid frosted. They are definitely not engraved; the detail is all wrong.

[brucebanner]

Thanks Christine, it's incredibly well detailed for a piece of pressed glass, I wonder what the original pressing would have been made from?

[Ohio]

I would look in the Hoffman/Hoffmann 1927 to 1933/34 catalogs to see if you can find a match & I agree with Christine, its pressed. Probably a pill box as Hoffman made a huge variety of vanity/personal type items. Sometimes marked with a butterfly on the bottom...I say sometimes because I've encountered Hoffman that matched up perfectly with the catalogs that were not marked.

[Paul S.]

this is the link for Pamela's 'musterbuch' - bring up Bohemia and run down to the Hoffman catalogues that Ken has mentioned.
http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/

[brucebanner]

Thanks for your help, box 264 on page bild 18sw looks similar in shape.