Scottish soldier cards (better photos)

[OC Richard]

I suppose it's sacrilege, but a very inexpensive way to get nice prints is to buy a book and cut out the pages and frame them.

I got a book quite cheaply- I think it was around 10 dollars- that had very nice large-size reproductions of a large number of the turn-of-the-century Simkin watercolours of British military subjects. They were printed on nice heavy paper. I cut out and framed a number of the pages. Who knows what the entire contents of the book, each print nicely matted and framed, would fetch on Ebay.

(I have my own matt-cutting machine and do all my own matts. I used inexpensive frames that have a cool vintage look to them, which only cost a few dollars each.)

You'll come across a vast number of vintage postcards with Richard Simkin paintings on them. Here's one image from the series that was reproduced in that book. Each image shows three representatives of one of the post-1881 Highland regiments.



Wiki on Richard Simkin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Simkin