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Description: | Robert Burns was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. In 1788 wearied of his arduous life on the land as a farmer, took up the position of an excise officer in Dumfries.
Burns was known to have taken the occasional pinch of snuff but from the number of snuff boxes and mulls which are said to have belonged to him it is hard to imagine how he could have used so many and most must be spurious.
This carved horn snuff container has a horn lid attached with a silver hinge plate on which the initials AB are inscribed. It was presented to the Burns Cottage Museum with the thought that there may have been some connection with the Poet, but this has not been established. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1700-01-01 - 1800-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Snuff mull made of horn with silver hing | Go to resource |
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