A Mauchline Tartan Ware Songs of Burns c1890

Description

Heading : A Mauchline Tartan Ware Songs of Burns c1890
Date : c1890
Period : Victoria
Origin : Cover Mauchline . Strathclyde probably William and Andrew Smith. Printed by Bowlett and Sons. 10Frith Street Soho. London
Decoration : Tartan cover
Size :  11.5cm x 7.7cm
Condition : Good. a few marks on te cover and signs of use
Restoration : None
Weight :  81grams

Mauchline Ware was to rival Tunbridge Ware for much of the mid 19th century. This can be dated quite accurately. The printer Bowlett and sons has an entry in the 1891 Kelly’s Post Office Diretcory but is absent in the next issue. It is amazing how the image of Burns has been sanitised and how the ‘ploughman poet’ has become a nationalist figure when he was himself a staunch Unionist. Anyone who has read his poetry will have come to realise that he was a sex crazed drunk who mistreated his wife. However. for all his failings he was Scotlands greatest ever poet.