Scottish Wedding Gents Posy Holder R.L Christie Edinburgh Rare Gold Scimitar Pebble Jewellery Brooch hand made Makers mark EGF

Makers mark EGF

created for a Liverpool Mayoress at auction for £1

it may be that there was once a little knob or fuse coming out of the top - when viewed under magnification its a little scruffy here and something has changed

He's hand painted and its a very nice rendering

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

Scottish Wedding Gents Posy Holder R.L Christie Edinburgh Rare Gold Scimitar Pebble Jewellery Brooch hand made Makers mark EGFDescription: 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