Piper's souvenir handkerchief

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Piper's souvenir handkerchief, probably dating from the 1930s, of synthetic silk overprinted on one side with a border of thistles, vignettes in the four corners of sets of Highland bagpipes and a series of twenty miniature portraits based on contemporary photographs of leading pipers including in the centre 'Pipe Major John MacDonald MBE / Inverness / Hon. Piper to H M the King'.

Pipe Major John MacDonald (1865 - 1953) was regarded as one of the greatest players of piobaireachd of his age. He came from a noted piping family and was taught piobaireachd by Malcolm Macpherson of Catlodge, Badenoch. He won the Gold Medals at Inverness in 1890 and at Oban in 1897 and for a period of about 20 years won all the major piping prizes. He was made MBE in 1935.

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• Online ID: 000-000-579-709-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.LT 117
• Date: 1930s (probable date of manufacture)
  
• Material: Synthetic silk
  Handkerchief
  
• Dimensions: 440 mm x 420 mm
  
• What: Handkerchief
  
• Subject:
• Who: Pipe Major John MacDonald (depicted)
  The Museum of Piping, Glasgow (place of display)
  
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• Event:
• Description: Piper's souvenir handkerchief of synthetic silk overprinted on one side.
  
• References:
  • MacNeill, S. and F. Richardson,. Piobaireachd and its Interpretation: Classical Music of the Highland Bagpipe. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1987.
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