A CURLY HORN SNUFF MULL
18TH CENTURY
Auction: Day 1: Wednesday 20 August - Lots 1 - 296
Description
the well-coiled horn with simple reeded silver mounts, the hinged horn cover set with a circular cartouche engraved with crest and motto A FIN above
Dimensions
9.5cm wide
Provenance
From the collection of Miss Wedderburn
Returned to the family at Cortachy Castle in 1927
Property from the Earls of Airlie
Footnote
Exhibited:
The Swords and the Sorrows, National Trust for Scotland, Culloden, 16th April – 20th September 1996, item 7:4
Note:
Family tradition states this snuff mull was carried, and lost, at the battle of Culloden by Colonel David, Lord Ogilvy.