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Comments on: Curtains Return to Culloden House http://109.74.200.198/curtains-return-to-culloden-house/ Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Michael Corby http://109.74.200.198/curtains-return-to-culloden-house/#comment-250 Michael Corby Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:32:08 +0000 http://www.scotclans.com/bletherskite/?p=595#comment-250 I thought I might just clarify your entry, if I may.

The curtains were, in fact, bought with my accopunt at Bonhams and were passed to Mathew Donnachie who reimbursed me for my effort.

Being that I had also bought other items I did in fact make them available to Mathew and the Circle as a gift tooffset my reimbursement. You could say that Mathew and I pulled of this business together on behalf of the nation and also in order to thank The Culloden House Hotel for their magnificent hospitality to A Circle of Gentlemen.

At this point and until the artefacts that I have donated to offset Mathew’s mostgenerous contribution, Mr Donnachie remains somewhat out of pocket but hopefully the artefacts that I have donated will finally put a smile on both of our faces by finally paying for our unashamed mischief.

What may be of slightly more inmterest toyou is that the curtains that are now in the frame in the reception hall of Culloden House arecindeed nothing less than the actual bed hangings from the Prince’s bed.

They were aquired from the Moy Hall Collection and the provenance is that they are indeed pretty much the very first thing that the Prince would have seen when he awoke on 16th April,1746.

In order to make sure that they were never confused from other ancient tartan artefacts of ‘hard tartan’ that were archived at Moy Hall, someone took the trouble to embroider an ‘S’ and a pair of crossed swords on the bottom ofthe cloth. This is easily seen on them in their display frame. Although I imagine we can never be sure, there is every chance that Lady Anne ‘Colonel’ Mackintosh may be the emboiderer. The Prince certainly gave her several gifts of tartan and also a gold breacan pin.

Whereas there can be no provenance for the embroiderer there is indeed provenance for the curtains as being the bed hangings of the bed that the Prince slept it.

The bed would have been Duncan Forbes’ own bed. He evacuated the building a few days before the Prince arrived and the Prince spent several days at Culloden House on mre than one occasion.

The actual hangings are folded up in the frame as they are about 6′ long

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