An interesting find!

[sirdaniel1975]

About a week and a half ago I decided to have a kilted outing and visit the antique mall (The Whistle Stop) and the Scottish Tartans Museum. Shortly after arriving at the antique mall I found a found a Scottish Regiment Badge for $15. It was in excelent condition and I could tell it was geniune and not a replica. It had an interesting fastening mechanism which was incomplete. It was a mechanism I've never seen.

Anyway, I bought it, and after my visit at the Scottish Tartans Museum I decided to attach it to the second Balmoral cap I made. Before I attached it, I wanted to look it up to determine which badge it is. It is a "Highland Light Infrantry (City of Glasgow)" badge. To attach it, I had to stitch it to the bonnet, and yes it is a metallic badge, it is not a patch. It simply was the most economical way to attach the badge.

Here it is:


I have a small Royal Scots pin as well, with an interesting story attached to it. Looks like I'm now collecting Scottish military paraphernalia.

Daniel S. Williamson
My website

[Woodsheal]

If you're collecting, check out the regimental balmoral I have listed in the "For Sale" section...!

[Tattoo Bradley]

Collecting that type of stuff is fun indeed. I have always wanted to collect US Military unit patches, just never really started. But, I don't know that actually wearing anything I didn't have some sort of direct connection with would be such a good idea. Especially when it's a specific unit's insignia. IMHO.

[MacWage]

I'd be VERY careful wearing military regiment ID stuff in public, unless you, yourself, were part of that unit.

Note-> From another thread on Eagle Feathers in the heraldy and Tartan area:
ScotsArmiger-
(the author if below


To give a for instance on a similar topic... Costumes and the likes...
I live in Houston, TX and at one point I went to the Houston Festival and came across a table selling dud coats of arms to anyone who was mad enough to buy one. Sure they make interesting 'souveniers' (albeit pricey souveniers at $200 a pop) but they actually mean nothing. Those coats of arms, are the personal property of Scottish individuals (chieftains most likely) and are NOT and never have been family coats of arms (unless that is the direct family of the armiger - his wife and children) - but the salesmen will claim otherwise, there and on a million websites trying to gouge you.

Anyway what annoyed me, was the people working on the stall and the costumes they were wearing. Their kilts were more like long skirts, way down past the knee, and on their glengarry bonnets they wore the emblem of the Argyle and Southern Highlanders - which is not a clan emblem but is the emblem of a regiment of the British Army!

As an ex-soldier myself, I asked the guy about his cap badge and asked what right he had to wear it. Since my father, grandfather and great-grandfather and so on... served in that regiment and wore that badge in theaters of war, I personally felt offended at these people wearing that cap badge.

Now the stupid kilt and oversized headgear, I could excuse and even go off in a fit of giggles, but I made a comment on the cap badge and later watched the animated actions of another man (an old Scots soldier) giving them a mouthful.

Moral of the story is: Consider what you intend to wear, find out how to wear it and most importantly if you have the right to wear it. Wear the costume as it was intended and you won't offend anyone, you might even receive compliments. If you see someone in a ridiculous costume, make helpful comments and suggestions, wherever possible.

Appologies in advance to ScotsArmiger that his comments were quoted without his knowledge, but seem to be just as appropriate in this context, and very informative to me as to what an ex-soldier thinks on the matter.


I have a collection of US military (mostly aviation) patches, as I am facinated by the subject. I used to have some on a jacket, but removed them as I got older, due to the potential mis-self-identification as one who actually served in the units and flew the planes in the patches. Now, I keep them in a place of honor and respect in my home, with the tag:
In honor of those who served,



Thank You!

[sirdaniel1975]

Well, for the Royal Scots, I do. My great great grandfather was in the Royal Scots, during the Crimean War. My family came from Glasgow in 1906. The new badge is a Glasgow regiment. The chances that another ancestor or relative, was in the local miliatry regiment, is pretty high. It was a big family, 9 siblings. That's not counting my great grandmothers family, McCluskey & Gow. The families {mine(Williamson, Coates, McCluskey, & Gow)} were in Glasgow for the there-a-bout of 3 generations. Most young men in the 19th century, joined the military in order to have a job. Work was very hard to come by, hence all types of clearances. I have been working on genealogy for 8 years now, and am at a stone wall right now. My much needed trip to the homeland could help clarify some of the wholes.

Don't suggest a genealogist, half my ancestors where named John Williamson, a bit to common. I do not need some one pluging in names for a buck... It happens!

PS Please don't tell me the clan connections for the names above, I allready know them...

[sirdaniel1975]

I never said anything about wearing it. I have inherited several 19th century Scottish items. All this goes to the collection.

Has any one ever heard of a thing called "A Display?"

Not trying to get nasty here, I wouldn't wear it in public. That's foolish. That is just as bad as folks wearing eagle feathers who aren't entitled too.

I've noticed that sometimes folks here tend to assume before they ask.

I used to be into US military stuff as well. I have some Ranger patches and so on. I have gentic ties the US Army and the US Navy. My right to serve in the Army was taken from me over a fluke medical tragedy... so that's a wee bit of an emotional topic...

Anyway, I really like Scottish Military garb/accessories and anything that is historicaly accurrate.

I hope I didn't get nasty, I wasn't trying to.

Peace

Daniel S. Williamson

[sirdaniel1975]

Crest & Plant Badge

It's a Clan Gunn crest badge with a twig of juniper behind it... If I'm not wearing that, I wear my blue bonnet! Most os the time, I wear no cap at all.

[MacWage]

About a week and a half ago I decided to have a kilted outing and visit the antique mall (The Whistle Stop) and the Scottish Tartans Museum. . . .
Anyway, I bought it, and after my visit at the Scottish Tartans Museum I decided to attach it to the second Balmoral cap I made. Before I attached it, I wanted to look it up to determine which badge it is. It is a "Highland Light Infrantry (City of Glasgow)" badge. To attach it, I had to stitch it to the bonnet, and yes it is a metallic badge, it is not a patch. It simply was the most economical way to attach the badge.

It sounded like it was intended to be worn as part of an ourfit

Sorry about the misunderstanding- my bad.

I think it is reallly neat and would make a FABULOUS display!!!
The cap gives it a great context.

[sirdaniel1975]

The Royal Scots pin was actually not a pin, I turned it into one. About eleven years ago when I was a Community College student, my father came home from work one day with the insignia. My father is an auto mechanic and found it in a totaled automobile. I believe it was attached to the cover of a small book originally. Posibilly a diary/journal. Well my father gave it to me since I've always been interested in my Scottish ancestary. I welded an old pin to the back of it and wah-lah, it became a pin. it has long been my tie pin or tux and jacket pin. It was great conversation in college, being a music major and having to wear tuxes all the time... Others were wearing their frat pins and such, I was wearing something I actually had a genetic tie. The same persons always asked about it, short term memories I guess.



PS. No prob on the little clan war above.... PEACE