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Title: Chinese snuff bottle
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Brundige, Linda
Date Created and/or Issued: 1973
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Robert Lee, of Jin Hing Co. in Chinatown, holds a snuff bottle made in Communist China. The bottle is painted on the inside with a curved brush. Bottles are as much as 300 years old and cost as much as $24,000. Average price is $300 - $400.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 16 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095892
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 98.
CARL0005058621
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33228
Subject: Snuff boxes and bottles--California--Los Angeles
Display of merchandise--California--Los Angeles
Merchants--California--Los Angeles
Bottles--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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