Gordon Highlanders: Officers Glengarry / Bonnet cap badge. Silver (makers marks for Kirkwood, Edinburgh).
Metal: Silver
Weight: 57g
Dimension: 62mm (w) x 64mm (h)
The reverse of badge etched with officers forename initial and surname H P-B
Reverse of the insignia impressed with 'Kirkwood's' makers address 'K. & H. B. Kirkwood, 66 & 68 Thistle St, Edinburgh'. Kirkwood's were both makers, and retailers of this pattern of Officer's glengarry / bonnet plaid brooch between 1881-1915 (the company, owned and managed by two brothers) was wound up in circa 1915
The insignia of standard composition, including a '12 Pointer' stag’s head, ivy leaves, a royal princess’s coronet and the regimental Gaelic motto 'Bydand’
Complete with a stout tapered hinged horizontal pin and clasp fittings as issued
A superb item of - eminently researchable - Scottish regimental insignia
Condition: About EF
Code: 25655
285.00 GBP

