Scottish soldier cards (better photos)

[Michael Weatherhead]

Here are the cards, separated by group. I think I'll mount them seperately, by groups, as suggested. I also think the soldiers in the third photo, are from English regiments. They were mixed in with some others I purchased. To my my wife's chagrin, I just ordered another card, last night, from Ebay. It's a 1907 postcard of a military bagpiper. The description does not tell what regiment he was with. The reverse side of the card, has a date stamp, which says "Au 30 07." Also has a one penny stamp, with King George. When it arrives, I'll upload photos, let people guess which regiment the piper is from. The post card was originally sent from someone in Edinburgh Scotland, to Paris, Maine USA

[OC Richard]

Very nice collection!

The group of cards 2nd from left as you know is a series of fairly well-known photos from the c1890-1900 period. The Seaforth Highlander private with all his kit laid out ready for inspection is a great image.

The pair of postcards 4th from left isn't soldiers but fanciful early 19th century paintings of mid-18th century Highlanders.

[neloon]

The reverse side of the card, has a date stamp, which says "Au 30 07." Also has a one penny stamp, with King George.

Can't be King George who did not ascend the throne until 1910 - must be King Edward VII.
Alan

[Michael Weatherhead]

Yes sir, it couldn't have been George. My mistake. And, to OC Richard, those highland cards, the original artist was RR MacIan. I really like them, would like to find cards of the whole collection. I've found prints, on ebay, but did not want to pay their prices. Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I should be more interested in the US military units, I suppose. I've had uncles who served in WWII. Grandpa in WWI. I'm very proud of that, of course. I just think the traditional Scottish military (and police) uniforms are really amazing. While living in Scotland, in the early 80's, I met a kindly WWII vet, who allowed me to put on his kilt, jacket (a bit snug), etc, and get a photo taken. But I'll be darned if I know where that is, today.

[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