Robert Burns

Stock No: 000059

Height: 7.5 Inches / 19.1 cm

Reference: Harding Book 1, Page 39, Fig 69

Price: £200.00

A figure of Robert Burns seated on a circular gilt lined base, taking snuff, wearing a jacket, neckerchief, waistcoat, breeches, and stockings. This figure was made by the Alpha modeller.

There were countless snuff boxes created during the Victorian period with characters from Robert Burns poems, he was a keen user of it and he even wrote several verses on the pastime habit.