Robert Mackie bonnets on Ebay

**Canadian Vet** · 18th December 25, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by User

My wife is always telling me to go soak my fat head, but it still doesn't get any smaller!

it's an old trick used on missionaries ...

**OC Richard** · 18th December 25, 08:22 PM

So a vintage Sterling Silver hallmarked kilt pin went for $10.

Yet every day people are paying twice that for crappy Pakistani pot-metal kilt pins with fat, dull pins that punch holes in your kilt. (The pins on vintage Scottish-made kilt pins are very slender and sharp and leave no sign that they were ever there, after you take them off.)

**geomick** · 18th December 25, 08:51 PM

By the time I saw your earlier post on the auction, it was already over.

**OC Richard** · 3rd January 26, 04:00 PM

Robert Mackie Glengarry, diced, with Mackie label, size 59, here in the USA for $20.

Appears to be in very good condition judging from the clean crisp label.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/17770560073...102140.m167418

**geomick** · 3rd January 26, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Robert Mackie Glengarry, diced, with Mackie label, size 59, here in the USA for $20.

Appears to be in very good condition judging from the clean crisp label.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/17770560073...102140.m167418

thanks for the post. Looks to be my size so it can be the hat race (if I win this auction vs the Balmoral coming from Scotland - shipping next week)

**geomick** · 8th January 26, 05:49 PM

The Glengarry is in very good condition and the size 59 fits me well.

I removed the Clan Gunn badge (since that isn't my clan). The badge is a Rhum Lyon Ltd. Is that a common brand?

**OC Richard** · 14th January 26, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by geomick

The badge is a Rhum Lyon Ltd. Is that a common brand?

I just looked it up, searching "rhum lyon pin" on ebay https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw...777.m570.l1313

I'll have to compare these to older brands like Carrick Jewellery (1971) and Art Pewter Silver (1968) both of which have had their stuff re-cast by later firms.

EDIT: I found a match with Rhum Lyon badges, Gaelic Themes.

Since only vintage Rhum Lyon badges show up on Ebay etc and Gaelic Themes are in current production, and also because Gaelic Themes has a track record of buying out other firms and re-branding their stuff, I'm going to assume that Rhum Lyon was the firm who created this line of badges and around 2005 were acquired by Gaelic Themes.

**OC Richard** · 21st January 26, 09:19 AM

Hmmmmm....

No Mackie label, almost certainly not theirs, but still a quality-looking Balmoral, with a WE Scott sporran, for £40

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18797432234...Bk9SR6rGvpX8Zg

**OC Richard** · 22nd March 26, 09:51 AM

Mackie with label, plain dark blue, size 57, around $70 https://www.ebay.com/itm/37698753841...Bk9SR97mlueiZw

**OC Richard** · 1st April 26, 08:01 AM

Here's a whole lot of stuff, a vintage genuine Black Watch sporran, a civilian horsehair sporran, several pairs of hose-tops in various tartans, etc.

And two Glengarries which look legit. I messaged the seller, asking him about labels. I sent the seller a photo showing a Mackie label.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20617353831...102140.m167418