Description: A china pot with a lid bearing the crest of the Royal Burgh of Rothesay. Around the hole in the lid are the words hair-tidy. Victorian ladies had a hair tidy as part of their dressing table set. Hair from brushes and combs were deposited in the pot to be later used as stuffing for pincushions or to create a ratt – a small ball of hair used to give volume to a hair style

Origin: Holiday makers have always loved to take home a souvenir of a place they have been to. Souvenir Heraldic china bore the crest of the town or village visited. In the 1880s the firm of WH Goss started to produce these wares and the rule was that an item bearing the coat of arms of a particular place could only be bought in that location. An appointed agent in the town had sole rights to sell these items. By 1900 Goss had 481 agencies all over Britain