Pin cushion, after 1879

Mauchline ware

TEXTILE WORKING EQUIPMENT
W & A Smith
Great Britain, Scotland, Mauchline
after 1879
wood
overall: 2 x 3/4 x 3/4 in.

Mauchline ware; Pin cushion, after 1879; from the collection of Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899); small Mauchline ware double ended pin cushion (most likely), wooden body, with a piece of string looped and attached to it (possibly for hanging), made from wood in the area of Burns' Monument (a monument for poet Robert Burns); wood has image of Allaway Kirk (a church in the area, and the graveyard next to it), an area that Burns discussed in one of his poems; printed on one side "WARRANTED/ MADE OF WOOD/ WHICH GREW/ Within the Railing/ AT/ BURNS' MONUMENT"; printed on other side, under image "Alloway Kirk".

2005.34.237