Vintage 1954 Scottish Hallmarked Sterling Agate Thistle Brooch

This is a Vintage 1954 Scottish Hallmarked Sterling & Agate Thistle Motif Brooch with Amethyst Colored Stone. Among these items are quite a variety of hallmarked sterling and gold pieces. Several are sterling, and one has a full set of Scottish sterling hallmarks.

We also have a variety of antique and vintage jewelry include gold and sterling pieces, including hallmarked pieces from England, Scotland, and Mexico, as well as signed US pieces including Native American and Southwest pieces, European and Asian pieces, and designer signed vintage costume jewelry. This listing is for a Scottish brooch with agate. It has a round cut, twelve MM diameter, prong set amethyst colored gemstone. My assumption is that the stone is paste.

The brooch has four rounded edges, 90 degrees apart, each beautifully chased with thistle designs, another traditional Scottish motif. It also has four triangular points, along 90 degrees apart, and rotated 45 degrees from the rounded edges, each inlaid with an agate gemstone in a variety of colors.

The brooch is hallmarked as follows: Maker's Mark - WBS in a diamond cartouche. I found an attribution for the mark to Ward Brothers, Branston St.

Glasgow, Registered 1948 (generally contemporaneous with the date letter). I did not manage to find any attribution to the purpose or meaning of this additional mark relative to the other hallmarks. Date Letter - Capital F in the font style and cartouche style for Glasgow Cycle VIII, 1954 The photos are close-ups. The size relative to both a US dime, and a ruler is shown in two of the photos, respectively. The brooch is 1 3/4" x 1 3/4".

The brooch weighs 13.82 grams. The brooch is in excellent condition. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution.