Quote Originally Posted by DaveW View Post
Did the tams and the water of ayr stones come from the same place? I have a friend who perked up right away when I asked a question about water of ayr, as it was his job to try to get a hold of them for the silversmiths at williamsburg to use. He said they were fairly difficult to get and then disappeared.
Yes more or less the Tams, WOA, Dalmore Blue & Yellow all came out of that same geographical area. There were just a few quarries/mines involved in harvesting and selling them IIRC. I have a little booklet on it somewhere. I think the WOA was the least common, maybe even rare. I've had one in my long life. Not that my having 'one' means anything, just say that I only had the opportunity to get one and that wasn't for lack of trying. I got mine right from Coulie too, so they weren't exactly popping up all over the place. It's gone BTW, traded for something I wanted more ...... and that is gone too !! ...........