Product SKU: Lapel/Tie Pin: C-LP / Clutch Pin: C-CP
Finest quality traditional Lapel/Tie Pin, or butterfly clutch pin made in solid 100% lead free Pewter.
Hand-cast and finished in our Glasgow workshop, by our highly trained craftsmen.
Sizes vary, but crests are usually 25mm wide and 30mm long. Lapel pin around 60mm long with pin.
BOD01 Book of Deer
The Book of Deer is a 10th-century Scottish manuscript which has the earliest surviving written Gaelic in existence. The illuminations within this little pocket books are wonderful pieces of early art from Scotland. This pin is taken from the full page depiction of St John holding a reliquary.
Size: 33mm x 13mm, c.60mm long with pin.
(Manuscript image taken from the 1869 facsimile edition by the Spalding Club, edited by John Stuart).
STAG: Highland Stag
There are two native deer types in Scotland, the Roe Deer and the Red Deer. The Red Deer is the largest indigenous land mammal to survive in Britain and are icons of the Highlands, especially the famous Monarch of the Glen.
STAG01: Side Facing
STAG02: Forward Facing
Size 36mm wide and 36mm long, around 70mm long with pin.
THIS01: Celtic Deco Thistle
Made to match our Carrick Cufflinks. Celtic deco was a subset of the pre-First World War Art Deco Movement, comprising of famous artists including the iconic Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This pendant is inspired by Mackintosh’s Celtic Knot jewellery patters, which in turn were inspired by ancient Scottish and Irish sources. The thistle has been a national symbol of Scotland since at least the time of James III. As the Renaissance took hold of Scotland, the thistle became an important decorative motif throughout the country, coming to represent the picturesque and hardy qualities of the Scottish landscape and people.
Crest 26mm wide and 24mm long, around 60mm long with pin.
507M Clergy
This lapel pin was designed for the use of clergymen and those associated with the Kirk of Scotland. It shows the Burning Bush from the Book of Exodus and the Latin motto NEC TAMEN CONSUMEBATUR ‘Yet it was not consumed’, which is the unofficial, but widely used, emblem for the Church of Scotland.
Crest 25mm wide and 35mm long, 60mm long with pin.
C-CLP03: Celtic Cross
Celtic Crosses were distinguished by their ‘nimbus’, a surrounding ring and were found throughout early medieval Christian Britain, primarily those parts influenced by ‘Celtic Christianity’: Ireland, Scotland, Northumbria, Wales, Cornwall and the West Country. It is composed of the intricate interlaced knotwork patterns found throughout the culturally Celtic parts of early medieval Britain, represented eternity and the twisting threads of fate.
Cross 20mm square, c.45mm long with pin.
DRAG: Welsh Dragon
The national symbol of Wales, the dragon is one of the earliest ‘national’ emblems to emerge in the British Isles, first being mentioned in around the year 829. In that famous story King Vortigern’s attempts to build a castle at Dinas Emrys are mysteriously foiled, until the boy Merlin reveals that two dragons are fighting below the ground – a red dragon and a white dragon. Freed from the ground, the red dragons triumphs over the white, and this was interpreted to foretell of the eventual victory of the Britons over the Anglo-Saxons.
Dragon 36mm x 17mm, c.45mm long with pin.
530 Lion Rampant
The Lion Rampant has been the symbol of Scottish Monarchs since at least the time of Alexander II and the 1220s. ‘Rampant’ is a heraldic term for a beast standing on its hind legs, with raised claws, poised ready to strike. It represents the courage, bravery and ferocity of the Scots.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
531: Thistle
The thistle has been a national symbol of Scotland since at least the time of James III. As the Renaissance took hold of Scotland, the thistle became an important decorative motif throughout the country, coming to represent the picturesque and hardy qualities of the Scottish landscape and people.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
IR530 Shamrock
An Irish Shamrock surrounded in a traditional Claddagh motif. The shamrock is a symbol of Ireland and especially of St Patrick.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
IR531: Irish Harp
An Irish Harp surrounded in a traditional Claddagh motif. The harp was a pan-Gaelic and Brythonic symbol, familiar in Ireland, Highland Scotland, Wales and Brittany, In Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, the-wire stringed instrument was the courtly instrument favoured by chiefs, before the popularisation of the bagpipes in the middle ages.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
540: Brittany
Brittany in north western France was settled by the Britons of the West Country from the fourth century to the ninth. Its language is very close to Cornish, and the people are recognised as one of the six Celtic Nations. There is a strong piping tradition in Brittany. Alongside the two local types of bagpipe, the Great Highland Bagpipe has been adopted since the end of the Second World War. The crest of Brittany is of an ermine, or stoat, with an ermine cape, the traditional symbol of the Dukes of Brittany. The motto translates as ‘it will never be stained’.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
532: Bagpiper
The piper is an icon of Scotland, long associated with the Highlands way of life and clan culture.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
533: St Andrew
St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland. He was an apostle and was crucified on an X-shaped cross, as he did not deem himself worthy to be executed in the same way as Jesus. The relics of Andrew are said to have been collected by St Rule (or Regulus) and brought to Scotland, to the important religious centre now called St Andrews. A story goes that before King Oengus II led a Scottish and Pictish army to victory over the English in 832AD, a white cross was seen in the sky, and was taken as evidence of the intervention of Andrew in the Scottish triumph. This is said to be the origin of the Scottish Flag (the saltire) and Andrew being the kingdom’s patron saint.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
550: Machine
Does life sometimes feel like a grind? Don’t let it – and *them* – grind you down, with this unique Lapel Pin.
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
508: Masonic
Crest 25mm wide and 30mm long, 60mm long with pin.
Kirkyard Range
A range of Halloween and Kirkyard inspired kilt pins, lapel pins and clutch pins – see the full range here.