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View full screenSet of Highland bagpipes with a chanter of cocus wood, ivory mounted, and a horn mouthpiece, previously owned by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, who acquired it from John Francis Campbell of Islay, made by Thomas Glen, Edinburgh, c. 1850
K.2001.894
Glen, Thomas McBean, 1804 - 1873, Manufacturer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe
c. 1850
Previous owner: Paton, Joseph Noel, Sir, 1821 - 1901
Previous owner: Campbell, John Francis, 1821 - 1885
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Paton, Joseph Noel. Private Catalogue of Arrow, Wheatgrass and Other Objects of Antiquity in the Collection of Sir Noel Paton. Edinburgh: 1879, p. 17.