Clan bonnet badge makers & sizes

[OC Richard]

Thanks for the info gents, I will follow up on those.

Here's an interesting thing I just noticed about some vintage badges.

Here's a Sterling Silver badge hallmarked PH (Peter Henderson, Glasgow) and date-stamped X (1946).



Here's another vintage badge, sorry I don't have a photo of the reverse to see whatever stamps it might have.



If you look at the details of the buckle, chape, and arrangement of the grommets you will see that they're nearly identical, too similar to be coincidental. I do notice that the grommets to the right of the overlapping strap are missing (visible on the badges at top and below). My guess is that that area had been overlaid with lettering for a long-motto Clan and later, when the lines were restored for a short-motto Clan the grommets had not been replaced.

Now let's look at Carrick Jewellery's medium-size badge. Note that nearly every detail of the buckle, chape, and grommets match.

I think it's obvious that when Carrick started up (1971) that they had acquired the old set of moulds used by one of the older makers. The stippled background is seen on some other vintage badges of the same design.



All of these badges are 40mm across.