A Mauchline ware circular penwork snuff box, the silver disc on the cover engraved with lines from Robert Burns' poem 'Tam o' Shanter': 'She prophesy'd that late or soon, Thou would be found deep drown'd in Doon. Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk' with engraved thistle below, the underside with a penwork depiction inscribed 'Tam roar'd out weel done Cutty-sark And in an instant a' was dark', mid-19th century, 6.7cm. diameterª