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This is a silver baluster snuff mull with the heraldic arms of Cluny MacPherson set within a foliated scroll formed cartouche. The museum purchased the mull at auction in 2015 specifically for the Jacobite collection. This special object purportedly once belonged to Ewan MacPherson of Cluny the chief of Clan Chattan who led 600 of his clan to fight for the Stuarts in the 1745 Jacobite Rising. After the Rising failed in Spring 1746, the British army burnt Cluny’s house to the ground and he escaped in the Scottish hills living rough, most famously in a small cave known as ‘the cage’ on Ben Alder.