Snuffbox

Description

Silver mounted oval tortoiseshell snuffbox with a portrait of the Old Chevalier, inscribed "A gift from Prince Charles Stewart to Miss Flora Macdonald 1746"

Museum reference

H.MCR 5

Object name

Snuffbox

Date

1746

Materials

Tortoiseshell, Silver

Physical description

Tortoiseshell; silver mounts

Associations

Clanranald Collection of Jacobite and Family Relics
Charles Edward Stuart, Prince, 1720 - 1788
Macdonald, Flora, 1722 - 1790
Depicted: Prince James Edward Stuart

Exhibitions

• Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites (23 Jun 2017 - 12 Nov 2017)
  National Museum of Scotland