kilt pin tale

[OC Richard]

I just saw on Ebay this beautiful kilt pin

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-SILV...item43bdf63db4

and I recalled the odd tale of what happened to mine.

I was working at a Highland Outfitter back in the 1980s and I could get things at cost. This kilt pin was offered by one of our suppliers, Ortak, Carrick, I don't remember who, and I bought one. Makes you feel old when something you bought new is offered as "vintage"!

I noticed the oddity of the stark plain bar of silver in the middle, how it didn't fit with the rest of the ornate pin, and decided that the intention might have been to have a stone mounted there.

So I took the pin around the corner to a jeweler who did work for our shop from time to time and asked if she could mount a nice cairngorm there. She said certainly and she had a nice big stone just the right size to look proportional. But... when I went back to pick up the pin I found that she had mounted a different stone, a tiny stone no wider than the supporting bar! It didn't look right at all. I explained about the bigger stone and she says yes she will switch the stones.

A week later when I go back her shop is closed up! She was gone, her shop empty, and nobody knew her whereabouts. I never saw my kilt pin again, and over the years just forgot about it. Somewhere out there that kilt pin exists, with one stone or the other mounted on it.

So... perhaps somebody will buy that Ebay pin and have a lovely cairngorm mounted in the middle!

Here's the photo from the Ebay auction

[Hopper250]

That is a lovely pin and would look great with a stone mounted in it. Really sucks about the loss of yours too.