Rare Antique Scottish Fern Ware Trinket Box (Sub Division Mauchline Ware) Treen

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Please also see all the photographs as they make up a large part of the description. Please see below what I have found online re Fern Ware. The box measures 3 inches across  / 2 inches in depth and 1.25 inches in height. It is a souvenir trinket box , with a forget me not motif and fern / floral decoration.

Manufacturers of Fern Ware

Fern ware is a form of wooden box ware commonly known as Mauchline Ware, though not all items of fern ware were made in the East Ayrshire town of Mauchline. The production of fern-decorated boxes and other small-scale wood-ware is associated with a number of Scottish manufacturers, but most particularly with the family firm W. & A. Smith, which operated in Mauchline from 1810 to 1839, and was listed as a manufacturer of ‘the new brown and coloured fern designs’ in 1872.[1] Another manufacturer linked to the production of fern ware was Archibald Brown’s Caledonian Fancy Wood Works in nearby Lanark.[2] Brown held several innovative patents for applying decorative finishes to box ware, including one applied for on 11th April 1870, which described a ‘spatter’ effect method.