I have lots of information j.yates if that helps ,also would be very interested in what you have found regards David.
Essentially I'm doing an object study for a gorget which was noted as coming from the "John Yates valuable collection of Scottish antiquities".
The object was in the estate of a notable Aberdeenshire family until probably at least 1917, when around about that date the estate was wound up (although no date is available). The John Yates collection had two objects which we know must have come from the estate so possibly picked up at the same sale/auction in the 1920s.
The object entered the Museum through an Aberdonian collector who seems to make clear when depositing the item that it is not necessarily his, but part of the so called John Yates collection.
Would be interested to know if you knew what the Yates of Stirling collected/sold, and which items they may have donated to museums in the past.
I think that the object I am dealing with is somewhat fake. The good news is that it wasn't faked by Yates, I think the originally family - at the very least - have wrongly attributed some provenance to it - probably in error.
