No I haven't seen that! Thanks!

I've seen photos of 1st Battalion A&SH enlisted men and officers wearing trews, which as you say is understandable because they were overseas at the time of...

Thanks for that photo! I'd not seen that one.

Here's a pre-amalgamation photo, I'm supposing it's the Pipe Major of the 93rd Foot.

https://i.imgur.com/Me7ybRX.jpg

Here's the Pipe Major (far...

It's a messy situation which I don't fully understand. Here's the two-tassel DM and three-tassel PM as you point out.

https://i.imgur.com/Q2TagOf.jpg

The Colour-Sergeant also wore two tassels...

I can't imagine how this quote could have come from a person who has spent time with Highland Regiments.

He didn't know about the Seaforth Highlanders? The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders? The...

The top photo in this collage is a postcard that's been sold for many years.

In cropped form it later came up for discussion in a Pipe Band forum where all the bands and people were identified.
...

Is that a Highland Dance tartan?

It has that look. The goal seems to be to have wide swathes of white and a fairly simple bold pattern in a strong colour like purple, magenta, lime green,...

Yes there are pretty much always child's sporrans for sale on Ebay.

They're often wildly overpriced and never sell. Even the ones at low prices rarely have takers.

You'd want the long goat...

And speaking of undervalued pipes, here's a 1985 Kintail set for $525 no bidders.

My current Pipe Major plays a lovely set of silver & ivory Kintails of this vintage and they sound great. That...

1961 Grainger & Campbell pipes in superb condition for $650 no bidders.

My old Pipe Major played a silver & ivory G&C set of that vintage. They sounded great, and in solos the judges always...

This amazes me! A set of David Naill pipes half-mounted in hallmarked Sterling Silver for a fraction it would cost new, Ebay auction closing in 30 minutes with zero bids.

Yes one imitation ivory...

Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2_8Igq7ko4

Interesting!

An Irish guy I did a couple gigs with used the term "bog Irish" to mean rural peasant Irish, sort of the Irish equivalent of the US hillbilly.

Now I'm unsure which meaning of...

(I write this not sure whether Peter is referring to the narrow dark stripe centred in the wide amber-tan field, or the wide brick-red stripe.)

With pleating. one of the several things I like...

Reading about the analysis of the tartan scarf and skirt of the Huldremose Woman bog find, it was possible to identify the dye-agents used, each of which gives a range of possible colours.

So a...

Yet, as was the case with Isle of Skye, it probably won't be long till they're weaving it in Pakistan and it will be on sale (in glorious "acrylic wool") in the Royal Mile tat shops.

So does House of Edgar have exclusive rights to weave and sell it?

As Lochcarron did with Isle of Skye?

Yes that's the crux of it, "sort of in that area".

Of course they're in the business of selling cloth, not being a museum, and they continue to create dozens of new fashion tartans which...

It's a bit of a head-shaker that it's being marketed alongside such tartans as "Beltane Blaze" and "The Alchemist"

https://www.houseofedgar.com/product/mediumweight-seventeen-eighty-three-tartans/...

From what I've read, Peter's information about the Glen Affric fragment and an article about the research into the colours of the Huldremose Woman's tartan skirt and scarf, it's impossible to know...

I love Dunbar pipes, but not a fan of any polypenco pipes.

For those who do want a great-playing set of indestructible poly pipes, here's a Dunbar set with a $350 opening bid.

Dunbar has long...

Royal Stewart seems to be restricted in that military units have been granted the right to wear it by the Sovereign, for example King George VI granting blue hackles to the Cameron Highlanders and...

Do you reckon RS is a Wilsons of Bannockburn design?

They did seem to use that basic structure for a number of their designs.



I could be wrong, but I think one thing that helped spread and...

https://i.imgur.com/97hE5ny.jpg



Interesting, I never thought of it as "simplistic". It looks rather complicated to me, and uses quite a few different colours.

For "simplistic" you can't...

Oh no however can that be?

He stated

Judge then the importance of the peat-gatherer's find and with what care it was cherished.

Here indeed was the key to much lost and sketchy knowledge...

I clicked on around ten of the used ones and they're all in tiny sizes, 51 to 53.