A Charming c.1820 Pen & Ink Naively Decorated Scottish Burr Root Wood Snuff Mull; ‘Tam o’Shanter’ sub-Decorative Objects a piece of flailing red

a piece of flailing red fabric acting as the tongue

Rosy Footman

and a handful of old repairs

in the later part of the 18th and early 19th century

The first coat of arms in nine partitions shows the charges of the rampant lion signifying strength

A Charming c.1820 Pen & Ink Naively Decorated Scottish Burr Root Wood Snuff Mull; ‘Tam o’Shanter’ sub-Decorative Objects a piece of flailing redOrigin: Scottish Period: Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1810 20 Height: 1. 75 inches Depth: 3. 5 inches Width: 5 inches The Georgian Scottish table snuff box of wonderful colour, carved in burr root wood from a huge old tree, having a hinged cover naively decorated in pen and inkwork depicting a scene from Tam oShanter showing a haunted church lit up, with witches and warlocks dancing and the devil playing the bagpipes amongst