Tea caddy of painted tin

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This tea caddy is painted with scenes of historic Scottish buildings and monuments. It is made of tin.

The lid of the tea caddy is painted with a representation of the Forth Rail Bridge.

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• Online ID: 000-100-003-124-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.SFC 19
• Date: 19th or early 20th century
  
• Material: Tin. Inscription: THE NEW FORTH BRIDGE / BURNS' MONUMENT / CALTON HILL / HOLYROODPALACE / CANONGATE / WEST BOW / THE LADY OF THE LAKE / MELROSE ABBEY / MARY STUART ESCAPING FROM LOCH LEVEN CASTLE / DUMBARTON C
  Tea caddy
  
• Dimensions: 138 mm H x 333 mm W x 168 mm D
  
• What: Tea caddy
  
• Subject:
• Who: Claverhouse
  Mary Stuart
  Rob Roy MacGregor
  
• Where: Dumbarton, Dumbarton Castle
  Edinburgh, Canongate
  Edinburgh, Holyrood Palace
  Edinburgh, West Bow
  Forth Bridge
  Houston House
  Loch Leven Castle
  Melrose, Melrose Abbey
  Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Wallace Statue
  Scotland, Midlothian, Edinburgh, Calton Hill, Burns' Monument
  Stirling, Bruce Monument
  
• Event:
• Description: Large tin tea-caddy, rectangular with concave sides and rounded corners, with a hinged outer lid, painted all over with scenes of historic Scottish buildings and monuments, from Houston House
  
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