GROUP OF FIVE SCOTTISH HORN SNUFF MULLS
LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £400 - £600
Auction: Session Two - Thursday 20th February at 10am
Description
including two curly horn examples, both of typical form with white metal mounts, one escutcheon engraved with the initial ‘R’, the other engraved ‘Robt. Thomson, 1760, Doune’; a blonde horn mull in the form of a leg with a plain horn lid; a mull in the form of a boot with white metal thistle mounts and escutcheon engraved with initials ‘JS’; and a miniature curly horn mull of diminutive portions without a lid (5)
Dimensions
the largest 11cm long