Wendy Lawton Cherished Customs Piping The Haggis

  
Offered for your consideration is Piping the Haggis, a 14 porcelain doll by renowned artist Wendy Lawton. The doll is #233 in a limited edition of 350.

Included is the doll, wrist tag, removable bagpipes, stand, all original packaging, including the box. The bagpipes were removed from packaging for photographing but the doll has never been displayed and is in pristine condition. A label on the box designates this doll as a nominee for Dolls magazine 1995 award of excellence. The doll has been carefully stored in a pet and smoke free home.

The tradition of piping the haggis happens on the annual celebration of Burns Night on the 25th January and honours the life and works of the Scottish bard Robert Burns, the author of many famous Scots poems. A Burns supper is held on the anniversary of his birth every year, a Scottish tradition that dates back to 1801.

Whether a formal or informal evening, everyone enjoys a hearty feast which consists of haggis, neeps and tatties, rounded off with drams of whisky as some of Burns' poems and songs are recited and tributes made, usually after the haggis has been piped in by the bagpipes.