Hi Folks: Recently a friend of mine picked up some sets of pipes at an auction house -- an old Border set, an old keyless NSP in ivory, and another keyless set as well. I bought the Border set and a friend of mine bought the ivory NSP. (I've attached a photo of the Border set.)
One of them is still on ebay I believe. We'd like to try to figure out some history on the pipes. Here is the only information we have: I got the pipes all from an auction house in the north of England. They were obviously all submitted by the same person and the name James Grieve is on a label on one of the boxes. I spoke with the auctioneer after I bought them and tried to get some information but all that they would tell me is that they came from a house clearance of an old lady who had recently died and everything was carried out under the instructions of a law firm. Does anyone know anything about Jim Grieve's collection? The Border set in the photo is very much in the style of Hugh Robertson, but could be a reproduction from the late 1800s as two or three of the large GHB firms were making reproductions of Hugh Robertson's Border pipes. I don't have a photo of the ivory NSP at the moment but will try to acquire one. Thanks, Jim ~McGillivray Piping~ www.piping.on.ca www.pipetunes.ca -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
