Talk by Ian Finlay
The Highlanders of bygone days put amongst their most valued possessions their weapons and accoutrements, which combined artistry and practical use to a remarkable degree. Ian Finlay, Assistant Keeper in the Art Department of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, speaks of an outstanding example of such craftsmanship - pistols made between the middle of the seventeenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries in the little village of Doune, at the foot of the Grampians.