When my wife gave me the go-ahead to kilt up for our wedding, I spent quite a bit of time "compiling" my outfit.

My best man (fellow Xscot, mang1974) received a custom Rab Gordon sgian dubh for his best man's present - maybe I'll cover that in a different thread - and I got a matching one.

I spent four months scouring eBay (and the net in general), looking for a kilt pin. When I finally found it, I probably put a bid on it that was way too high, but I'd never seen anything like it before or since, so I didn't want it to get away.

The story behind the pin, as told by the previous owner when he shipped it from Australia, is that his mother received it as a gift in the 1980's from an elderly British expatriot who moved to Sydney in the 1950's, and the woman said she'd owned it for years at that point, even.

No idea what the date is on it, then, but it is 980 Sterling Silver, and it looked rather fab on the kilt, if I do say so myself.