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    Quote Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer View Post
    The properly dressed Auld Crabbit also has a tartan neck cord to go with his revolver, and the slide is cairngorm for full dress.
    I should think that a Webley Fosbery is just as rare as a genuine Cairngorm these days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    I should think that a Webley Fosbery is just as rare as a genuine Cairngorm these days.
    Smoky Quartz is not rare - indeed, it's quite an abundant semi-precious stone. It is merely quartz coming in particular from the Cairngorm mountains that has become more rare. It's likely the Webley-Fosbery is quite a bit more rare, and certainly a good bit more expensive.
    "To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro

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    Quote Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer View Post
    Smoky Quartz is not rare - indeed, it's quite an abundant semi-precious stone. It is merely quartz coming in particular from the Cairngorm mountains that has become more rare. It's likely the Webley-Fosbery is quite a bit more rare, and certainly a good bit more expensive.
    I am told by those that know about these things that a genuine Cairngorm is as rare as hens teeth these days. As you say, smokey quartz is abundant worldwide.

    My father always used to tell the tale of finding a huge chunk of Cairngorm whilst out deer stalking near Aviemore and thinking he could retrieve it on the way back home he carried on pursuing the stag------he got the stag, but could not find the Cairngorm again.

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