Kilt Pin

[OC Richard]

Sorry I'm going to beat the drum a bit for vintage kilt pins, which I very much prefer over anything I've seen being currently made.

From the 1920s through the 1950s a number of Scottish firms made extremely elegant Sterling kilt pins which I think set the standard.

(Forsyth 1960 catalogue)



Here's my 1950s Henderson & Horner (Glasgow) kilt pin which I got on Ebay for around $20, with a 1950s catalogue offering that exact pin (Tartan Gift Shop, Edinburgh)



Here's a thread I started about classic Scottish kilt pins

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...lt-pins-94957/

These are always available on Ebay, often for prices below ungainly modern ones; here's a vintage Robert Allison Sterling silver kilt pin for under $40 https://www.ebay.com/itm/19462504749...kAAOSwJzlhslrh

Makers include silversmiths

Robert Allison
Thomas Kerr Ebbutt
Henderson & Horner
Medlock & Craik
John Fraser
James Rettie & Son
Hamilton & Inches

and pipemakers

Robert G Lawrie
Peter Henderson

Personally I really like being able to wear a piece of Scottish history for relatively little money.