Tartan was incorporated in an assortment of common household objects such as snuffboxes, jewellery cases, tableware, sewing accessories, and desk items.
Scaphoid fractures usually cause pain and sensitivity to palpation in the anatomic snuffbox at the base of the thumb accompanied by swelling in the same area.
In a case where there is localized tenderness within the snuffbox, knowledge of wrist anatomy leads to the speedy conclusion that the fracture is likely to be of the scaphoid.
The story gave the clues to the location of four snuffboxes hidden on the island, each of which contained a voucher for 100 a considerable sum in 1930.
Before smartphones came prayer beads, gloves, fans, handkerchiefs, embroidery and knitting, facial hair, snuffboxes, canes, umbrellas, pipes and cigarettes.