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THE QUAICH

ANATOMY OF AN ANTIQUE

The quaich (pronounced ‘quake’) is very much a unique part of Scotland's social history. A wellknown legend is that when Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie as he was known, travelled from Edinburgh to Derby with the Scottish army in the mid 18th century, he carried with him a glass-bottomed quaich so that he and his regiment could

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