Where Mr. Lucas’s second survivor may be is unknown to me.  Not so many years ago a wooden highlander, as a tobacconist’s sign, was a conspicuous figure in Knightsbridge, and there was another in the Westminster Bridge Road; but tempus edax rerum has consumed them with all their brethren.  In a few provincial towns a wooden highlander may still be found at the door of tobacco shops, but they are probably destined to early disappearance.  In 1907 one still stood guard—­a tall figure in full costume—­outside a tobacconist’s shop in Cheltenham, and may still be there.  There is a highlander of oak in the costume of the Black Watch still standing, I believe, in the doorway of a tobacco shop at St. Heliers, Jersey.  It is traditionally said to have been originally the figure-head of a war vessel which was wrecked on the Alderney coast.  Another survivor may be seen at the door of a shop belonging to Messrs. Churchman, tobacco manufacturers, in Westgate Street, Ipswich.  A correspondent of “Notes and Queries” describes it as a very fine specimen in excellent condition, and adds:  “Mr. W. Churchman informs me that it belonged to his grandfather, who established the business in Ipswich in 1790, and he believed it was quite ‘a hundred’ year old at that time.”

One of the earliest known examples of these highlanders as tobacconists’ signs is that which was placed at the door of a shop in Coventry Street which was opened in 1720 under the sign of “The Highlander, Thistle and Crown.”  This is said to have been a favourite place of resort of the Jacobites.  In his “Nicotine and its Rariora,” Mr. A.M.  Broadley gives the card, dated 1765, of “William Kebb, at ye Highlander ye corner of Pall Mall, facing St. James’s, Haymarket,” and says that the highlander was a favourite tobacconist’s sign for 200 years.  I have been unable, however, to find evidence of such a prolonged period of favour.  I know of no certain seventeenth-century reference to the highlander as a tobacconist’s sign.

The figure was usually made with a snuff mull in his hand—­the highlander being always credited with a great love and a great capacity for snuff-taking.  But one curious example was furnished, not only with a mull but with a bat-like implement of unknown use.  Mr. Arthur Denman, F.S.A., writing in Notes and Queries, April 17, 1909, said:  “I have a very neat little, genuine specimen of the old tobacconist’s sign of a 42nd Highlander with his ‘mull.’  It is 3 ft. 6 in. high, and it differs from those usually met with in that under the left arm is an implement almost exactly like a cricket-bat.  This bat has a gilt knob to the handle, and on the shoulder of it are three chevrons in gold, without doubt a sergeant’s stripes.  On the exposed side of the bat is what would appear to represent a loose strip of wood.  This strip is nearly one-third of the width of the instrument, and extends up the middle about two-fifths of the length of the body of it.  I can only guess that the bat was, at some