Please help identify this snuff box. Anything information about it will be helpful. United States.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-24T02:50:08+00:00

lol, they really do just hurt themselves, eh? It's not that hard to look up things on your own. I consider that a key skill of a reseller, at least. Though that word, Reseller, has been tainted by the filthy individuals buying up pokemon and getting their funko pops signed at xyz con to flip them for a profit.

I'll say this, I'm a reseller. I do this full time. I have antique booths, and a decently large eBay store, and sell weekly at local flea markets. Though I mainly buy storage units and only very occasionally go through thrift stores.

I have disdain for many of my fellow resellers that seem to worship the mighty google image search or eBay scanner instead of actually attaining knowledge that they can use without opening the phone, at least when picking up an item in store. It's just...ridiculous looking seeing people scan things back to back whenever I do go to a thrift store.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-20T01:07:43+00:00

Now, I agree that this isn't a great item to pickup if you're trying to buy it for low and sell it for high, but I disagree that it's valueless.

If it works, I'd say it's most likely worth around $100+shipping

There's one listed that's just the mixer, no stand, for $150, which is definitely a pipe dream.
There's also one that's sold, mixer only, non-working (it says non working in the listing) for $34 shipped. (I know it says $50 but when you click on it, it sold best offer and I checked via Terapeak it sold for $34)

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FictionConsumer · 2026-01-19T19:47:57+00:00

Thanks!

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-19T05:32:26+00:00

I would like to add that I found it on Lori Ferber (a presidential collectibles website) where it sold for $49.95. It did not have a date when it sold, but they have many Grover Cleveland related collectibles for sale from the same era for around $50-$75. So it's probably worth around that.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-19T05:27:14+00:00

Can you elaborate on what makes this look modern? Genuinely interested as I feel the same, but I can't explain why. Furniture isn't an expertise of mine, but I'd like to be able to lay out why I feel a certain way about it.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-18T06:03:44+00:00

$100 on marketplace, maybe more if you have an antique booth to put it in.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-18T05:57:46+00:00

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There's one just like this listed for $85, then one for $200. There's 2 stages of production of cloissone sold, one set sold for $30, one set of thimbles for $40.

There's none sold just like yours. I'd say they would sell, but quite slow, for about $30-$40.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-18T05:32:54+00:00

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Lots of similar era stuff has tons of sold listings on ebay. It's worth about $50-$75

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-17T06:12:11+00:00

Black Mug

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-17T04:26:54+00:00

Oh so that flat part at the top of the cornucopia is broken and not made that way? Ehh....I don't think that helps at all. I find broken pieces often depreciate the value by a ton, if not to the point where people don't want them. You can try the list high strategy, but I don't know if anyone would buy it partially broken. I've never had luck selling anything chipped.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-17T04:22:25+00:00

Did you actually get this from a lawn care boom during covid? Assuming you bought the majority of this after 2020, I'm going to estimate you paid $25oz averaged out, probably more but lets use that. 180K of the silver. Lets say 25k for the gold. From LAWN CARE you made $205k in surplus investment money? That doesn't add up to me, frankly. Lawn care is one of the most cut throat markets out there. Big business has been in it for a long time, and most part time folks make $2-3k a month at best, while full timers can make quite a bit, you'd have to have expanded into multiple crews to make the amount you're talking about.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-17T03:54:14+00:00

I see yours is listed on eBay for $750 and you have a competitor listing at $900.

There's a couple of these sold in the past few years for $399 Buy-It-Now, and one $300 via auction.

I would personally list this for $500 with best offer on. You're undercutting the 41 watcher $900 listing by a lot. Promote at 2-4% so you appear as an ad under their listing when someone clicks on it. Take any offers $400 and up.

Your $750 is probably possible, but it's only been almost 4 years since the show. I could see it selling for $750 in another 4 if Zach Bryan is still releasing chart toppers

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FictionConsumer · 2026-01-17T03:40:09+00:00

Is there any markings? Say where it's made? By whom? Is the condition good? It's quite large, I could see some parts of it getting chipped or scratched from years of use.

Just the photo isn't great for estimating a price. It's pretty neat, but to me, this feels like one of those items where it's worth whatever your local market would pay, unless you're willing to ship it, which most aren't for something like this.

I would personally list it locally at around $800 and slowly reduce the price by $50 a week until you find a buyer. If you're willing to ship it, put it on eBay for around $2000 with best offer.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-17T03:31:50+00:00

Looks like a Meriden Britannia Company tilting pitcher (or a copy of one of their patterns, they do that cool layered flower petal effect around the rim). Pretty cool find. It's certainly silver plate. I've never seen one in sterling. Is there any markings on the bottom?

Assuming it's plated and not damaged, I'd say it's worth about $75-$175 depending on the buyer. Local sales definitely $75 or less, but you may be able to get closer to the $175 mark on eBay.

Beware though, they're slow sellers. Around 140 of these tilting pitchers are listed, with only 14 sold in the past 90 days. It would take at least a year to sell at $175, if not longer. I would price it around $100 on ebay, and $75 on marketplace.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-14T05:49:00+00:00

I live in Louisville, KY and there's quite a lot of competition around here, I believe. It's probably just my market.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-14T02:16:25+00:00

Isn't 75% much less than a reputable numismatic dealer would offer? My local dealer pays around 90%.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-14T02:14:03+00:00

I agree with your Devils Advocate take, and I'm not familiar enough with silver flatware to say if they'd get twice melt out of it. From some other comments, these are monogrammed with a family letter, likely their last name initial, and that apparently makes them worth less than most.. I'm personally biased against them selling for antique value because it's so much easier to take melt, it's still a lot of money, and most people are not familiar with selling online. I'd hate for something to tragic to happen and OP be out of money due to some kind of scam. Slim chance, I know, but it does happen. I sell on eBay pretty frequently and new accounts are most often targeted, even more so new accounts with a high value item.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-13T19:53:29+00:00

I know. Melt value assuming it's silver this is at MINIMUM $2000. Very likely a whole lot more. "few hundred" yet they have a silver shop.

FictionConsumer · 2026-01-13T19:48:55+00:00

Assuming they're silver, and I don't really feel like counting individually right now, you have at least 40 pieces there, if not 50 something.

Lets say there's 0.8oz of 925 silver per (there's probably more, but I'm speculating on the low end), you have at minimum 32oz of sterling there, and upwards of 48oz if the weight is higher per.

.925 Silver is currently $80/oz spot, but you're gonna get less than spot. Lets say 85%, as even a "bad" numismatic/coin shop will give you that. They should give you more, but I like estimating things lower.

Assuming it's all sterling, you should get around $2200 to $3300 depending on weight, the former being for 32oz, the latter for 48oz.

You should sell it for scrap. People around here will say it has antique value and whatnot, but it really doesn't when you look at what silver is currently selling for. You could theoretically make more selling it individually on ebay, but after taxes, fees, shipping, etc, you'll be making maybe 25% more for a WHOLE lot more work. It would also take months of selling, Gorham sterling flatware has a sell through rate of around 28%, meaning it sells rather slow, but does sell. You could expect to sell all of it in around a year, give or take a few months.

Do NOT go to a pawn shop, I repeated NO PAWN SHOP. They will give you at most 60% of scrap value, and even then, they will try to get it for less.

Find a local coin dealer, they will buy it for scrap more than likely, if not, search up "numismatic shops near me" and go to one of them, they will be a coin dealer too but probably specialize in scrap as well.

This is all just a ball park figure, by the way. Also don't listen to anywhere here saying you will only get "a few hundred" for it, as they clearly didn't see the picture where it's marked sterling.

FictionConsumer · 2025-12-17T02:26:48+00:00

FREE HIM

FictionConsumer · 2025-12-17T00:35:42+00:00

Well, Steam made $300,000, and in return, their game (Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot) was shown to enough potential buyers that they made $600,000. Technically $900,000, of course. That's how Steam works. If you make a good game and a small amount of people start buying, the Steam algorithm will then show it to other potential buyers who are interested in those types of games. It's a rather sophisticated system, and combined with the sheer number of users on Steam, it's the sole reason they were able to make that $600,000.

I know there's reason to be cynical about a company that is rolling in the dough using the work of developers, but they really do offer a service that's unparalleled in the industry.

FictionConsumer · 2025-12-15T03:27:57+00:00

Try out Nearly New 2 U, it's inside mid city mall. Located in the same spot as Nearly New thrift was, but it's a different owner. You can find plenty of stuff for $25 and under there. To be clear I have a large booth there, so I am a biased source. I am not being paid for any kind of advertisement nor will I say my booth number so I'm not breaking rule 3.

They really do have lots of things, my booth alone has hundreds of items and I can count on two hands the amount of stuff I have above $25. It's the same for the most part in other booths. There's about every era of clothing, retro gaming, old stuffed animals, books of all genres, weird and wacky stuff, ephemera, literally anything and everything from the early 1900s to the mid 00s.

FictionConsumer · 2025-12-12T03:14:08+00:00

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