Where to obtain "Scotland's Forged Tartans?"

**jsrnephdoc** · 11th March 25, 09:11 AM

I'm unable to find a library available to me where I can borrow this book or read it online. I can BUY a used copy, on Amazon, for almost $100, but that's too pricey for me.

Any suggestions?

**figheadair** · 11th March 25, 09:37 AM

It's one of those useful books to historians that, alas, has not been digitized.

**ShaunMaxwell** · 11th March 25, 11:33 AM

A copy is available here, but with the shipping from the UK, it's probably not much less expensive than the Amazon version:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18620397104...Bk9SR5jrzuewZQ

Cheers,

SM

**jsrnephdoc** · 11th March 25, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by ShaunMaxwell

A copy is available here, but with the shipping from the UK, it's probably not much less expensive than the Amazon version

Cheers,

SM

Thanks, Shaun

Turns out my local public library should be able to borrow a copy from a University Library several hundreds of miles distant. I'm looking forward to perusing it!

The title is interesting, in that in common parlance a "forgery" is typically understood to be a criminal deceit attempting to claim something was created by someone already recognized as an accomplished artist. My understanding of the Sobieski Stuarts' "caper" mainly was that they claimed their inventions were not new, but rather almost branding of long established families

**figheadair** · 11th March 25, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by jsrnephdoc

Thanks, Shaun

Turns out my local public library should be able to borrow a copy from a University Library several hundreds of miles distant. I'm looking forward to perusing it!

The title is interesting, in that in common parlance a "forgery" is typically understood to be a criminal deceit attempting to claim something was created by someone already recognized as an accomplished artist. My understanding of the Sobieski Stuarts' "caper" mainly was that they claimed their inventions were not new, but rather almost branding of long established families

Forge in this case meaning to produce a fraudulent copy or imitation. The predecessor to the published Vestiarium Scoticum (1842) was not a document of 1725 but an invention of the Allen brothers c.1815-20. There is not evidence that the older Douai Ms ever existed.