Curling interest: a Mauchline ware shaped oblong snuff box, the hinged cover painted with a curling scene depicting curlers on a frozen loch in a tree-lined mountainous winter landscape, the front side inscribed 'Presented To David Marr Pres. of the Mauchline Curling Society by the Curlers of his native place as a Token of respect for his long, ardent, and successful perseverance as A Curler', the base painted in polychrome colours with two long tailed animals toasting each other with raised goblets amid foliated scrolls against a gilt ground, the sides similarly painted with foliated scrolls, partly legible stamp on the inside of cover 'Smith, Mauchline', 19th century, 9cm. wide