110 year old advice that still holds good...

[Troglodyte]

My chief has confirmed my eagle-eyed observations, and tells me the sporran shown in the 1913 picture is still being worn by the current generation, and that there is a supply of more such old Highland dress stashed away in his castle attic.

I would say that attic sounds like an ideal target for a stealth raid by kiltie commandos, as there should be some rich pickings..!

But that's the advantage of 30 or more generations inhabiting the same home for 1,000 years - quality items tend to get kept. I wonder how many should-be-in-a-museum items are languishing away in attics, unused and forgotten.

What we need is a kind of Monuments Men team to search them out, track them down and let us see pictures - like the art-world does with private collections of Old Masters.