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Tartanware Medlock Rolled Tape Casket
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Tartanware Medlock Rolled Tape Casket

19th century
Sold 19 April 2025 · Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
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An interesting piece of tartanware marked for the Robertson Clan. Very good order. Original label to the base, label bears two dates June & November 1863 and what appears to be a Masonic symbol of the compass & set square. All in very good order.

H 7 cm

Dia 6 cm

Date of Manufacture

Digby Antiques (Wiltshire) has dated this Antique Tartanware Tape Casket to the Victorian era.

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An interesting piece of tartanware marked for the Robertson Clan. Very good order.
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Original label to the base, label bears two dates June & November 1863 and what appears to be a Masonic symbol of the compass & set square.
Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)

All in very good order.

H 7 cm

Dia 6 cm

Date of Manufacture

Digby Antiques (Wiltshire) has dated this Antique Tartanware Tape Casket to the Victorian era.

Reference Numbers
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SA1129349
Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
Sellingantiques verified Since Dec 2020
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A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO
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Archive I A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO

Tartanware Medlock Rolled Tape Casket

Archive II A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish. View II
Archive III A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish. View III
Archive IV A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish. View IV
Archive V A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish. View V
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Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)

Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
Telephone 07710 931929
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Dealer Profile Page sellingantiques.co.uk/digbyantiqueswiltshire
Verified Since Dec 2020
Items For Sale 143
Items Sold 925
Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
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A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish.
Tartanware Medlock Rolled Tape Casket
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A cylindrical antique tartanware tape casket featuring a red and green plaid lithograph paper finish.
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  • ObjectDecorative Box
  • Period19th century
  • StyleVictorian
  • Material[Sycamore, Paper, Varnish]
  • ColourGreen and Red
  • MotifsPlaid pattern, Cylindrical body, Fitted lid

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Tartanware, also known as Macduff ware, is a type of nineteenth-century Victorian souvenir woodware decorated with paper lithographs featuring specific Scottish clan tartans, reaching peak popularity between the 1840s and 1890s.

These items were typically constructed from sycamore or white pine wood, covered with meticulously printed tartan paper known as plaiding, and finished with multiple coats of clear varnish to protect the surface.

Authentic pieces feature period-correct paper lithography, precise registration of the tartan pattern, aged varnish with characteristic craquelure, and construction methods consistent with nineteenth-century turnery and box-making.

Tartanware items add colour, historical texture, and graphic pattern when displayed on bookshelves, mantelpieces, or as part of a curated collection of small antiques in traditional or eclectic interiors.

Keep tartanware out of direct sunlight to prevent the coloured lithographs from fading, avoid water or chemical cleaning products, and maintain stable indoor humidity levels to protect the delicate wooden substrate and paper finish.
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