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Period Features: Robert Burns

It’s Burns Night tonight so I have allowed myself a little indulgence, show-casing this very particular object, which is not exactly a common period feature but is interesting all the same. It’s the diamond tipped ‘pen ...

It’s Burns Night tonight so I have allowed myself a little indulgence, show-casing this very particular object, which is not exactly a common period feature but is interesting all the same.

diamon-cutter

It’s the diamond tipped ‘pen’ which Rabbie himself made so he could indelibly inscribe his verses on other peoples’ windows.  On his highland tour in 1787 he left a trail of graffiti starting with this, at the Cross Key’s Inn in Falkirk, – a plea for men who treat women well to be rewarded with a good night’s sleep:

Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.

‘Sound be his sleep and blythe his morn,

That never did a lassie wrang;

Who poverty ne’er held in scorn,

For misery ever tholed a pang.’

Rabbie-Burns

Very happy Burns Night with or without the haggis!

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