Scottish Wedding Gents Posy Holder R.L Christie Edinburgh Rare Gold Scimitar Pebble Jewellery Brooch hand made natural diamonds (over 1 carat

natural diamonds (over 1 carat in total) of good colour and clarity

abalone shell

It comes from just one small area in Derbyshire (less than 4 miles from us here

It doesn't quite fit the mould for the earlier Victorian Scottish pieces and has a definite arts and crafts feel rather than the precise lapidary work seen in the high Victorian pieces

the better as can be a bit fiddly

Scottish Wedding Gents Posy Holder R.L Christie Edinburgh Rare Gold Scimitar Pebble Jewellery Brooch hand made natural diamonds (over 1 caratDescription: Very unusual piece of Victorian pebble jewellery (which was made popular by Victoria and Albert with their purchase of Balmoral everything Scottish was suddenly en vogue and remained so for the rest of the century and beyond). 99% of these Scottish pieces are in silver and then the gold ones are nearly always just the plain round or oval brooches with local Scottish stones. So as well as being gold, the shape is very unusual, possibly