Item:  Card Case Description: 'Scott Memorial' Hallmark: Birmingham 1852 by David Pettifer Dimensions: 100mm x 70mm rectangular; 72g weight

Comments: An excellent card case with crisp detail. Pettifer is one of the lesser known specialist Birmingham box makers, but his work is always of the highest quality. Plus, a very competitive price!

Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) is probably the most well known Scottish author,  penning such works as Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake, Kenilworth, Rob Roy, Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian. He was one of the most popular novelists and poets of the 19^th Century.  After Scott’s death in 1832, his home city of Edinburgh organised a competition for designing a monument to his memory. The winning Gothic influenced design came from George Meikle Kemp and the 200 feet tall tower was sited in Princes Street Gardens. The Scott Memorial became a point of pilgrimage for his many fans, following it’s completion in 1844.

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