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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;shamster, post: 10443350, member: 85821&quot;]Back with another tortoiseshell item I am interested in! This time an inscribed snuff bottle veneered with tortoiseshell. I have found several similar snuff bottles inscribed at the bottom with “made during Tongzhi period “ in various auction houses, mostly labeled as Qing dynasty, I.e. <a href="https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0330/a-tortoiseshell-snuff-bottle-with-inscriptions-171777" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0330/a-tortoiseshell-snuff-bottle-with-inscriptions-171777" rel="nofollow">https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0330/a-tortoiseshell-snuff-bottle-with-inscriptions-171777</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.zacke.at/auction/lot/955-a-cylindrical-tortoiseshell-snuff-bottle-formerly-in-the-collection-of-wu-rangzhi-1799-1870/?lot=44362&amp;sd=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zacke.at/auction/lot/955-a-cylindrical-tortoiseshell-snuff-bottle-formerly-in-the-collection-of-wu-rangzhi-1799-1870/?lot=44362&amp;sd=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.zacke.at/auction/lot/955-a-cylindrical-tortoiseshell-snuff-bottle-formerly-in-the-collection-of-wu-rangzhi-1799-1870/?lot=44362&amp;sd=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0310/a-tortoiseshell-polyhedral-snuff-bottle-with-i-163777" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0310/a-tortoiseshell-polyhedral-snuff-bottle-with-i-163777" rel="nofollow">https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0310/a-tortoiseshell-polyhedral-snuff-bottle-with-i-163777</a>（Wu Peifu is a Minguo warlord lol and they still offered it as Qing)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>that seems silly. And some of them even signed by famous figures from 1912 to 49, aka Minguo period. </p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think? Could be a real Minguo antique or late as Chinese export?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]525352[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]525353[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]525354[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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