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Scottish kilt pin - can you help identify maker?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:18 pm
by Laurie G
Hello, can you please help identify the maker and year of this beautiful Scottish kilt pin?
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:22 pm
by rachelw
pretty certain it's the Edinburgh assay mark for 1967-68
don't know the maker
Re: Scottish kilt pin - can you help identify maker?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:04 pm
by littleeagle5
Oh wow i nearly fell off my chair when i saw the photo....i know that my mother has an identical pin in her collection......and can remember her wearing it in the late 50s as a kilt pin.......will have to dig it out and take a photo of it........have to go and buy a lotto ticket....never seen another one like it till i opened your post:)
Jen
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:58 am
by Doos
Hi,
The correct name for such a brooch is a "penannular brooch", typical Celtic cloak pin.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:11 pm
by volpone
It looks like it's marked R.A. That would be for Robert Allison, a silversmith who worked with and took his inspiration from Alexander Ritchie, of Iona, Scotland.