Kilt hose pins

[Troglodyte]

Kilt-pins and kilt-hose flashes are well-known and commonly seen, but as 'kilt-hose-pins' these have to be entirely novel and made-up as a one-off.

The photos make the pins appear identical, so a matching pair - which you would want if wearing on your hose - and some people like to go into for fancy garter-ties in the form of rosettes and the like, and that could well be the idea behind your pins.

Styled as a miniture sporran gives them the appearance of a sweetheart-brooch, of the kind men of Highland regiments would make for the girl-back-home, especially during the Great War, and were usually a scaled-down version of their hair-sporran with something of a personal meaning included.

Your pictures and description give no indication of size or scale, but sweetheart-brooches were of an appropriate size to be worn on a blouse or coat lapel - so no more than about two inches long.