The Copse, High Water Tablet, Gettysburg, PA Mauchline Ware on Sycamore Tree

The Copse, High Water Tablet, Gettysburg, PA Mauchline Ware on Sycamore Tree - Inventory Number: GET 529

Adorned with transfer ware scenes of landmarks, this “Scottish” wooden ware dates from about 1880 to 1900. Though it was sold throughout the United Kingdom, great quantities were also exported to many parts of North America, Europe, South Africa, Australia and elsewhere.

Mauchline, located 11 miles inland from the Scottish coastal resort of Ayr, was the center of the Mauchline Ware industry, which at its peak in the 1860s, employed over 400 people in the manufacture of small, but always beautifully made and invariably useful wooden souvenirs and gift ware. If it weren’t for the town’s association with Robert Burns, it would be difficult to find any present-day connection with the industry. Similar products were also made in Lanark, but because of the contribution of its originators, W. & A. Smith of Mauchline, the vast number of souvenirs produced in southwest Scotland from the early 19th-century to the 1930s is now referred to by the generic name of "Mauchline Ware."

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Inventory Number: GET 529