A Charming c.1820 Pen & Ink Naively Decorated Scottish Burr Root Wood Snuff Mull; ‘Tam o’Shanter’ antiques This rug has come directly

This rug has come directly from Ashford Hall

There is darkening and yellowing to the paper and noticeable foxing throughout so the picture does appear in aged condition though there are no tears

In 1860 Swan developed a carbon-filament incandescent lamp (some twenty years before Edison

The original heavy plate glass is mainly clear and in good order with two or three areas showing the most foxing

A Charming c.1820 Pen & Ink Naively Decorated Scottish Burr Root Wood Snuff Mull; ‘Tam o’Shanter’ antiques This rug has come directlyOrigin: 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