Scottish kilt pin - can you help identify maker?

[Laurie G]

Hello, can you please help identify the maker and year of this beautiful Scottish kilt pin?

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[rachelw]

pretty certain it's the Edinburgh assay mark for 1967-68

don't know the maker

[littleeagle5]

Oh wow i nearly fell off my chair when i saw the photo....i know that my mother has an identical pin in her collection......and can remember her wearing it in the late 50s as a kilt pin.......will have to dig it out and take a photo of it........have to go and buy a lotto ticket....never seen another one like it till i opened your post:)

Jen

[Doos]

Hi,

The correct name for such a brooch is a "penannular brooch", typical Celtic cloak pin.

[volpone]

It looks like it's marked R.A. That would be for Robert Allison, a silversmith who worked with and took his inspiration from Alexander Ritchie, of Iona, Scotland.