Thank you so much for that!
It's fascinating reading. I love trying to get to the origin of things, or at least to the earliest known specimens of things.
The colours of the original remind me of the colours used by at least one modern weaver for Ancient Bruce of Kinniard: the pink, the lime-olive green. It would be cool to do a re-weave of the original colours in the faded specimen.
A few semi-related tidbits:
Southern California has a place called Glamis. We pronounce it GLAM-iss. Yet another one of those things, like VUR-sails in Kentucky.
The entire Guest Relations Department at Disneyland in California is dressed in PCES tartan (though, in their training, they are told that it's Royal Stewart).
PCES was the tartan of the old 72nd Highlanders, unique in wearing Highland doublets, feather bonnets, and trews (rather than kilts). Numerous publications and online sources (including Wiki) erroneously give their tartan as Royal Stewart, but period photos show clearly that they wore PCES.
An officer of the 72nd Highlanders c1870
Guest Relations employees at Disneyland (called "plaids" or "pladdies" by the other employees for obvious reasons)
Glamis, California. As you see it's sand dunes and little else. It's where all the offroaders take their jeeps and quads and dirt bikes and tear around in the sand on the weekends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamis,_California
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Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
