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Your Price: $ 1995.00
Item Number: snuf001
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Circa: 1819
Condition: used
Size: 3 1/2'' X 2 1/4'' X 1 3/8'' height
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Manufacturer: John Shaw, Birmingham
master Georgian box maker John Shaw, Birmingham created this unusual table snuff box with oak panels covering the solid silver box with a gilt interior and then engraved exerpts from Robert Burn's poem ''Tam O Shanter'' on the outside silver panels.
one small silver strip of bezel missing, otherwise very fine
panels read;
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make us scorn
Wi' Tippeny, we fear nae evil;
Wi Usquabae we'll face the devil_
The swats sae reamid in Tammie's noddle
Fair play, he car'd na diels a hoddle.
The souter tauld his queerest stories;
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus,
The storm without might rair & rustle
Tam did na mind the storm a whistle
Nae man can tether time or tide;
The hour approaches Tam maun ride;
That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast in;
And sic a night he taks the road in
As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.
Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd,
Or cutty-sarks run in your mind,
Think! ye may buy joys o'er dear -
Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare.
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