An Early Victorian Burr Wood Memento Mori Snuff Box c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage stools) are now highly prized

stools) are now highly prized by collectors

a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr

Suspended from a multitude of cotton strings from loops the painted canvas is in good overall condition

Having a one piece bleached oak oblong top on the original painted pine x-frame legs with two later iron struts

each sweet-faced and grasping loose swaddling bands with one hand whilst directing our attention to the entrance of the building beneath them with the other

An Early Victorian Burr Wood Memento Mori Snuff Box c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage stools) are now highly prizedOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 Depth: 1. 75 Height: 2 Width: 4. 5 The unique burr wood snuff box of cylindrical form and super colour, the flush hinged cover carved and applied with a central skull and the interior being tortoiseshell lined, the whole surviving from early Victorian period England. The box is complete without any losses, the only defect being a small hairline to one end as photographed. The