A Rare Stirling Gift, Mauchlineware Souvenir
Today, visitors expect – and get – quality souvenirs at our visitor attractions. Today’s object from the Smith collections is a souvenir which is at least 155 years old, and was sold in the Douglas Room within Stirling Castle. It is a bound book containing frames for 48 cartes de
Mauchline Ware
At the height of the summer, it’s worth taking a look at how Stirling provided souvenirs for tourists in generations past. It is often said that modern tourism in the Stirling area began with the publication of Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake in 1810. By 1814, when his novel