Rob Roy MacGregor's Sgian Dubh?

[CMcG]

Nice photos CMcG!

I can't take credit for them, but my Google image search powers are pretty OK sometimes

The first few are from flickr and clicking on them takes you back to their source. The last one is from http://www.scotiana.com/

[Taygrd]

Thanks for your responses, perhaps I should say I would like to replicate the "alleged knife of possible RRM origins supposedly to reside in Abbotsford". May need JerseyLaywer to tighten that up for me a bit
I had a fellow swear that his 1873 Winchester was used in the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. "Fanciful Embelishment" was a term I learned a way back.
Thanks again.

[Riverkilt]

Was an antique picker stopped to chat with a New Hampshire farmer repairing his split rail fence. Eventually the picker made an offer on the old axe the farmer was using. Farmer tells him sorry, can't sell this axe - it was George Washington's axe.

Picker says, well it looks old, but not THAT old. Farmer admits its had two new heads and three new handles - but it IS George Washington's axe.

[JerseyLawyer]

Thanks for your responses, perhaps I should say I would like to replicate the "alleged knife of possible RRM origins supposedly to reside in Abbotsford". May need JerseyLaywer to tighten that up for me a bit

It's not allegedly a knife. It really is a knife. And it really resides in Abbotsford.

Perhaps, "The knife, now residing in Abbotsford, that Rob Roy allegedly once owned."

Unless, of course, in the words of another great Knight of the Realm, Sir Humphrey Appleby, "the precise correlation between the information [Sir Walter Scott] communicated and the facts, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear." :P

[Taygrd]

Unless, of course, in the words of another great Knight of the Realm, Sir Humphrey Appleby, "the precise correlation between the information [Sir Walter Scott] communicated and the facts, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear." :P

I may need to use that quote in a staff meeting.

[Joe Gondek]

Highlanders of Rob Roy's era did not carry the sgian dubh as we know it: the small knife worn in the hose top. That practice began nearly a century after his death! The sgian shown in that display case is NOT an early 18th C. piece, as far as I can see.

Rob almost certainly carried a sgian achlais, or armpit dagger, which was a more substantial weapon than the little sgian dubh, which is just a fancy utility knife....

you beat me to it Woodsheal
but this is my understanding also

[BoldHighlander]

Somewhere I have a photo of a sporran and a dirk handle purported to have once belonged to Rob Roy....I'll see if I can dig it up in the next day or two.

[Red Stag]

Here's a few images from Sir Walter Scott's Armoury at Abbotsford house. I'm not sure which is the knife you're looking for... why do you ask?

I want my house to look like that!

[Ryan Ross]

you beat me to it Woodsheal
but this is my understanding also

...and both of you beat me to it.

[BoldHighlander]

Somewhere I have a photo of a sporran and a dirk handle purported to have once belonged to Rob Roy....I'll see if I can dig it up in the next day or two.

Here's the photo I mentioned in the previous post (above) that purports to be the sporran & dirk handle once belonging to Rob Roy:



They are taken from the book "Highlanders: A History of the Scottish Clans" by Fitzroy Maclean (1995). They are both credited to the Trustees of the Tenth Duke of Argyll.