Is it still possible to get “dry” or “powdered” snuff? You know, the snuff you might see an Eighteenth-Century nobleman snorting in a costume drama. The kind that has the texture of flour or talcum powder, as opposed to mulch.
I think that’s what we’ve been talking about for most of this thread. 
Fribourg and Treyer (now owned by Wilson’s of Sharrow) still produces several snuffs that were popular during that time period, though that was the heydey of the coarse rappee snuffs. Old Paris, a tin of which I have sitting in my cabinet, was a favorite snuff of Beau Brummell. And a Dutch gentleman who runs these windmills has recently re-started production of several snuffs according to recipes from the 1700s.
So do you have to blow it out at a certain time? And if so, will you know it? Or is it OK to let it run through and drip to the back of your throat if it’s one of the drippy ones? The thing I recall the most about dip is that you (well, not Shagnasty) absolutely have to spit out your nicotine-saliva because if it goes down your throat you throw up instantly. My first time doing that was also my last time dipping. It’s hard for me to handle that big a nicotine hit, anyway; when I smoke shisha I have to skip a couple of turns or else I get the spins.
And where do you put your colored handkerchief? I can’t think of how to incorporate this into my wardrobe. Butt pocket, maybe? Actually, I don’t even know where to find one.
I don’t know, man. For one thing, the snuff you put up your nose and the snuff you put in your mouth are two entirely different things; they’re both tobacco, of course, but that’s about where the similarity ends, it seems. And you use them entirely differently; with nasal snuff you take a tiny little pinch every once in a while, but with dip you suck on a bunch of tobacco continuously. (Nasty!)
As for me, I may be making an online order in the next couple of days; I’ve done some research and I’m particularly interested in the Samuel Gawith McCombie and Banana ones, WoS Tom Buck and the Gawith Hoggarth Dry Orange and Kendal Brown.
Oh, and more hanky questions: do you just sneeze into it, fold it up and stick it back into your pocket? Doesn’t that get nasty? What if you have to blow your nose into it again? Do you have to excuse yourself to run water over it in the nearest bathroom every once in a while, or do you just toss it in the laundry at the end of the day?
No. You just blow your nose whenever you would otherwise blow your nose, i.e. if it starts getting stuffy or runny. If you’re inhaling it properly, it shouldn’t be dripping to the back of the throat. If it is, you either inhaled too hard or the snuff for some reason just doesn’t agree with you.
I keep it in the front left pocket of my pants, folded up.
Tom Buck == good, but I’ve come to really detest Gawith Hoggarth’s snuff. I still like their Kendal Brown, but their containers seem to cause the tobacco to go stale instantly and the rest of their offerings are simultaneously too dry and too cloying. If you’re interested in those two flavors, try Fribourg & Treyer’s Kendal Brown, or Samuel Gawith’s if you can find it, and F&T’s Seville rather than the Dry Orange.
Yes, eventually if you never wash it, you use a different portion of the handkerchief, no, and yes. Unless you have a cold one handkerchief will easily satisfy your nose-blowing needs for a day.