Robert Mackie bonnets on Ebay

**Jock Scot** · 18th March 25, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

About diced hats especially Glengarries over 150 years of military use has cemented that look as "military" in the public eye.

For me, and I would guess for many others especially Scots, seeing a civilian wear this sort of hat looks a bit out of place, a bit like Fancy Dress (as worn by many supporters at Scotland football and rugby matches).

Jock it is the same with you?

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Personally, I would rather that they didn't. But then, I am not interested in football or rugby, I think partly, that is because the attire chosen by Scottish supporters looks so dreadful.

**OC Richard** · 26th March 25, 03:31 AM

Here's an authentic Mackie Glengarry (with label intact) for 40 Pounds, in a strange colour combination.

Body: claret/maroon
Tourie: scarlet
Dicing: scarlet & white (the "93rd dice" or "Argyll dice")
Ribbon binding, cockade, tails: black

https://www.ebay.com/itm/13560276614...temCondition=4

**OC Richard** · 26th March 25, 03:37 AM

Another Mackie (with label intact) in a beautiful blue which I can't recall seeing before.

30 Pounds.

Not navy, not Lovat, not Saxe. I wouldn't know what to call it.

But Mackie had made up matching dicing, suggesting that it was a production colour at one time.

(I know photos can be deceiving, but generally if an Ebay seller posts a large number of photos at least one of them will hint at the true colour.)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31654401227...temCondition=4

**OC Richard** · 26th March 25, 03:44 AM

Mackie Glengarry size 58 (with Mackie label) $35

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16728377930...temCondition=4

This one doesn't have the label but IMHO it's clearly a Mackie.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/15656967591...temCondition=4

**OC Richard** · 26th March 25, 03:49 AM

A diced Mackie (with label) Balmoral, size 58, $39

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16728378548...temCondition=4

A plain dark blue Mackie with label, size 57, in seemingly very good condition, though not cheap at $92

https://www.ebay.com/itm/12699709792...temCondition=4

Speaking of not cheap, but wildly overpriced, a Mackie Balmoral (with label) for $200

https://www.ebay.com/itm/22663420782...temCondition=4

**BobF** · 26th March 25, 12:25 PM

I am admittedly quite uneducated when it comes to these bonnets, but I recently bought a used glengarry on Facebook Marketplace from someone selling off ex-pipe band items, and having seen the labels I’m now thinking I got a pretty good deal on a Mackie. All I have done to it was to wash it gently in tepid water with mild soap, I touched up a few white worn spots on the cockade with a black Sharpie, and added the hat badge in honor of my Donald ancestors (sort of illegitimate; my third great-grandmother Mary Brown was a milkmaid and apparently had a dalliance with the farmer’s son Robert Donald, producing my second great-grandmother Mary Donald. Any clan affiliation is dubious, I assume, as the farm is in Kilwinning in North Ayrshire, and those Donalds were in Ardrossan before that).

Can this be confirmed as a Mackie product?

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Not that it matters, but is there a way to estimate the age?

The cost (minus the badge) was $10 plus $5 postage.

**OC Richard** · 27th March 25, 01:28 AM

Yes indeed that's a Robert Mackie label.

It has the firm's logo (that stylised thistle) but not their name.

They used this label for at least a half-century, and all the Ebay bonnets I've listed here have it.

Being adhesive, unfortunately many genuine Mackies have no labels.

Here it is on a bonnet from the 1980s

Here's a bonnet I bought around five years ago. As you see it has their traditional adhesive label, and in addition a new label sewn into the binding

Here's a yet more recent bonnet showing new labels. Note the traditional label now lacks their thistle logo.

Plus there's a new label with the Mackie name and an even more stylised thistle.

**Bad Monkey** · 27th March 25, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Another Mackie (with label intact) in a beautiful blue which I can't recall seeing before.

30 Pounds.

Not navy, not Lovat, not Saxe. I wouldn't know what to call it.

But Mackie had made up matching dicing, suggesting that it was a production colour at one time.

(I know photos can be deceiving, but generally if an Ebay seller posts a large number of photos at least one of them will hint at the true colour.)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31654401227...temCondition=4

If only it was a wee bit bigger...

That is a fantastic color IMHO

**OC Richard** · 27th March 25, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Bad Monkey

That is a fantastic color IMHO

It is. I do wonder if it's Saxe Blue but just showing up dark in the photos.

Hard to imagine that photos could change Saxe Blue into that, though.

The Mackie blues are being tough for me to pin down.

I thought I'd seen a Sky Blue, clearly different from their Saxe Blue, but I can't find a photo of a bonnet like that. Maybe it was just a faded Saxe Blue bonnet?

I know I've seen a Royal Blue, deeper and more intense than Saxe Blue, but I can't seem to find a definitive photo of that either.