Silver

Rams Head

Ram's head table snuff mull. Presented by Lieutenant-Colonel A.M.Sprot, Royal Scots Greys 1941 -1962,  and Major GHC Sprot 3rd Carabiniers 1941 - 46. to Lieutenant Colonel A J Bateman, Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Other Ranks, The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys). 

Background Information


The word mull originates from a Scottish dialect word for mill, where the snuff would have been ground to a powder, mulls came in a variety of shapes, the most common being fashioned from a ram's horn, usually mounted in silver and often embellished with cairngorms - a semi-precious stone which takes its name from its source in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.

Others are found in plain silver or even wood, but the grandest snuff mulls of all - and the choice of a regimental mess - were made from en entire ram's head, sometimes mounted on wheels so that it could be passed around a large dining table with ease.