Strange Plate, West Highland Museum, Fort William, Scotland

The Strange Plate, a copper plate etched 1746 by Robert Strange, by order of Bonnie Prince Charlie, to print money for the Jacobite cause (although it was never used), in the West Highland Museum in Fort William, Highlands, Scotland. Bonnie Prince Charlie, or Charles Edward Stuart, 1720-88, was the Stuart claimant to the British throne, who took part in the Jacobite Risings and fled to France. The West Highland Museum holds many items belonging to him, including his death mask, weapons, possessions and clothes. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1746 Artefact Bonnie Highland Highlands Illegal Jacobite Laundering

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