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BEAUTIFUL ART PEWTER PENDANT AND 16 INCH CHAIN

" THIS PIECE IS KNOWN AS "  SCOTTISH THISTLE

TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH JEWELLERY

BRAND NEW COMPLETE WITH HISTORICAL NOTES CARD

2.5 CMS LENGTH

HISTORICAL NOTES

The 3000 year old pictish and Celtic art heritage of Scotland developed in no more beautiful form than the traditional jewellery now so famous throughout the world.

Many of our designs are faithful copies of antique originals from the Museum of National Antiquities, Edinburgh, or more often from the Isle of Iona, once famous for it's Silversmiths, hence its ancient name " The Isle of Cunning Workmen ".

On Iona today, the lovely old Celtic designs are still to be found adorning the ancient Cathedral of the Isles; the tombs of Scotland's Kings and Chiefs, and the 1000 year old Celtic Standing Crosses.

Many designs incorporate endless Celtic interlacing, the symbol of eternal life; others the beautifull distorted animal forms, distorted because the celt would not reproduce the exact image of any living thing.

The Luckenbooth brooch, so called because of its sale from " Locked booths " in the Royal Mile, adjacent to St. Giles Cathedral, was traditionally gifted by a young man to his betrothed and was subsequently pinned to the shawl of the first baby to protect it from " Evil Spirits " and thus they have passed down through generations of Scottish families. The heart shape design is significant of its purpose and surrmounting crown symbolic of Mary Queen of Scots.

The Thistle was adopted over 700 years ago as the emblem of Scotland, when according to legend it was responsible for signalling the clandestine approach of a horde of bare-footed invaders!

By virtue of its aesthetic quality and balance, the thistle translates beautifully into a variety of our jewellery designs, including: brooches, pendants, earrings, pins, cufflinks and tie-bar; some complemented by stones of finest lead crystal glass in traditional colours.