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Honey box, drip tray & lid

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made at Kirkcaldy, Fife

Honey box, drip tray & lid
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This Wemyss ware honey box, drip tray & lid were made between around 1885 and 1930 at Robert Heron & Sons' pottery at Kirkcaldy in Fife.

The box and tray are hand-painted with a bee hive and bees in flight. The box and lid have a similar style of bee, the tray is by another hand so was probably assembled later. The tray is stamped with the cartouche of Thomas Goode & Company of of South Audley Street in London.

This type of honey box was one of several patterns specially reserved by Thomas Goode & Co. Goodes recognised a potential large market for this type of ware and they became Heron's English agents and handled much of the firm's output.

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