Mauchline Ware: A Collector’s Guide

Mauchline Ware is a generic name for wooden souvenirs made in South West Scotland during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collector’s guide provides an historical overview of the production of Mauchline, gives details of the unusual array of shapes, sizes and finishes of Mauchline Ware and is lavishly illustrated with examples from private and museum collections in Scotland, England and the United States.

Mauchline Ware owes its origins to an inventive genius, James Sandy (1766‐1819), who lived at Alyth and is acknowledged to be the inventor of the integral (or hidden) wooden hinge used in snuff boxes. During...