Argyll Jacket & waistcoat from 1900

**McMurdo** · 5th April 19, 03:15 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

I am afraid that that sample is nowhere near the shade of brown that McMurdo and I are talking about.

Exactly Jock, the jacket I have is also very difficult to photograph but the colour is unlike any tweed I've ever seen before including my mid-century brown Harris Tweed.

**McMurdo** · 6th April 19, 05:41 AM

I sent a photo of the label to Tim at House of Labrahn and in no time at all came back with the following information:

Samuel Duncan, tailor and army clothier,
39 Frederick street ; Lived at a house, 12 Jordan Lane.
Listed in the post office directory books 1894-1905

**Standard** · 6th April 19, 07:14 AM

Outstanding find McMurdo! It looks to be in excellent condition for being over 100 years old!

**Jock Scot** · 6th April 19, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by EdinSteve

I really posted it as an example of a tweed colour which, as you said, dates back to the 1940s and is probably no longer available. No suggestion of any resemblance to the style of McMurdo's other than a similar, older material and shade.

I am sorry about that Steve. Although from memory, I am not at all sure that I said what you have said I said.

I was born in 1940 so that is as far as my memory goes, I did say, in my first post in this thread, that I recall seeing that hue and that type of cloth at about that time and I did say that I doubted that any jacket that I saw was new and I also said that I thought some of the jackets that I saw could well have started life before 1900. It was that shade of cloth that McMurdo’s new acquisition has that I was meaning,not a post 1940 hue that might well compare with your jacket. Any way, I am sorry if I have not been as clear as I intended.