This gold mounted tortoiseshell snuff box, dating from around 1785, is set with a miniature of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, based on the portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton. The paper insert below the snuff box states that it was painted at Rome in 1776.
Oval-shaped, gold-mounted snuffbox of dark tortoise-shell, with a miniature of Prince Charles Edward Stuart on the lid, said to have been painted at Rome in 1776
Tobacco taking was popular in Scotland from the mid-17th century. Scots became addicted to it in all its forms, whether smoking, chewing or snuffing. Snuff was known as the 'sneeshin' and a snuff box was a 'sneeshin-mill'.
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