“She’s all good, which is the main thing,” he said. “Yeah, the kilt [is] gone. It belongs to the USA now unless some miracle means that we can get it back.”
The kilt was in a light-colored suitcase, last seen at the 175th Street Station, on a platform for A trains headed for Penn Station, between 7 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Monday, according to Ferguson’s Instagram post.
Ferguson, 22, wore the kilt when he set off in February on a cross-country walk to raise money for mental health services in his homeland and to show support for Scotland’s first World Cup match in 28 years.
Scotland beat Haiti, 1-0, Saturday at Boston Stadium in Foxborough. The Scots next play Morocco at the stadium on Friday.
The kilt is rare; there were only two made in the world, Ferguson said.
“This kilt has a very distinguishable rip in it from wearing all my stars and stuff like that and don’t have lots of holes [from] the kilt pins,” Ferguson said. “And it’s bogging because I was wearing it so much. So, yeah, I don’t think that I’m ever, ever going to find the kilt.”
On Tuesday, nearly 24 hours after his post, the kilt was still missing. In the several thousand comments on the post, many people tagged @nycmayor and the city’s police and fire departments.
One commenter posted: “Citizens of the greater Boston area we must go to NYC and find that kilt! We must [protect] the kilt and the Scots!”
Ferguson said in his Monday post that he doesn’t expect to be reunited with his kilt.
“I basically have said goodbye to it in my head now, but yeah, my kilt belongs to the USA now. I think there’s maybe something a bit poetic about that, but who knows, maybe social media will do its thing and some New Yorker will find that kilt and be able to return it one day,” Ferguson said.
“But until then, USA kilt. Goodbye, my friend.”
Adam Sennott can be reached at adam.sennott@globe.com.