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[M. A. C. Newsome]

So it's not truly the Black Watch tartan (though it's not any other tartan, either). You might want to call it something like "Black Watch, abbreviated sett" or something.

Actually, I have to correct myself here. There is a recorded version of the Black Watch tartan with this "abbreviated sett." I don't know if it is in the on-line version of the ITI or not, but it's number 12, recorded under the name "Cambpell, the 42nd." It was illustrated in Kenneth Macleay's book Highlanders of Scotland in 1870.

Now, it very well could have been an error in Macleay's illustration and not representative of actual woven cloth. Who knows? The point here is that it is a recorded variation, although still not the usual Black Watch sett that people would expect.

Maybe you can call it "42nd tartan, Macleay variant," or some such....
~M