ANTIQUE VICTORIAN SCOTTISH SILVER AGATE GARTER BROOCH C.1880

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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN SCOTTISH SILVER AGATE GARTER BROOCH C.1880:
$345.04

Antique Victorian Scottish Agate Brooche…….

You can probably tell that I have a passion for Scottish Agate! I am like a magpie for it and always have a good selection for sale.

This is a fabulous example and I love the Celtic cross in the centre and the garter belt – both popular motifs of Victorian Scottish Jewellery.

This good-sized Silver brooch is set with some lovely agate examples including grey striate and green malachite. Every surface of the front of the brooch is hand chased & engraved.

The rear is well finished and it has an extended* pin and C catch fastening.

There is a minor dint on the rear, other than this the brooch is in excellent condition. It needs a good clean and I can do that for you or you may do this yourself.

Date: 1860’s

Size: 2” / 5cm (including garter)

Weight: 14g

Material: unmarked – tested as silver using Acid

Marks: None

K923

*Extended pins on brooches are often a good indicator of period. The pins were made longer and extended beyond the edge of a brooch to accommodate the thicker Victorian fabrics that were pre 1880’s

Scottish Agate or Pebble Jewellery was made popular by Queen Victoria. When she travelled to the Highlands with Prince Albert she fell in love with the dramatic landscape and went on to purchase Balmoral, the rest as they say is history. This love extended to all things Scottish and when the London papers reported that the couple were wearing “polished pebble brooches made from local stones” it set a trend that would last for decades and even spread to Europe.

Written examples of this sweeping fashion are to be seen in the novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell in her novel Cranford (1851) set in the Cheshire village of Knutsford where one of the characters – Miss Pole was wearing no less than 7 Scottish pebble brooches!

Please Note: All Weights & Measures are Approximate. Unless otherwise stated, any dimensions and estimated weights of gemstones in this description have been determined without un-setting the stones and are, therefore, to be considered only as a probable because of limitations imposed by the mount. The box in the picture is for display purposes only and your item will come in a reproduction antique box unless otherwise stated.

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