The check is shown as 'Shepherds' in a 1820 tartan sample book by W. Wilson jun., Bannockburn.
What is the difference between Shepherds and the fashionable 'pied de poule' or hound's-tooth pattern? Is it just a piece of cloth put there by an ignorant collector?
The shape of the red cloth suggests to me it was meant for another badge?
Rgds, Thomas
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