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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    In any case, isn't this "78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band" tartan another Black Watch variant?

    The green left as is, the black changed to blue, the blue changed to orange?

    The difference being that the double-track motif occurring at the edges of the alternating orange squares has been reduced to a single line at each edge.
    In essance, yes. Here is the 42nd sett, then Wilsons' Fraser in which the outer ground stripe colour is missing from the 4 line square, and then this new colour reversal.

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    Thanks for the cool graphic there!

    I suppose the 42nd's music tartan could be added to the mix?

    (The family of Black Watch tartans where one colour is changed to scarlet.)
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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