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Snuff Vase or Pill Box Vase. Circa 1916. Nickel-plated vase, elegantly spun from brass, used to exchange or vanish a small object. Height 6 ½”. Base diameter 3 ½”. Tall finial. Wear to plating, else near fine. Uncommon in this design. Donald Holmes offered a similar vase (most likely imported) in his Catalog No. 3, as item number 202. A lengthy discussion of the prop and a routine for its use was published in Willmann’s Moderne Salon Magie (1891), at page 317.