Officer's plaid brooch, worn by Maj W B Thomson, 6th Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers, 1880 (c).
In silver (unhallmarked), a burnished circlet with an engraved scroll pattern border.
Mounted upon the voided centre, within a silver thistle wreath, die-struck in gilt metal, an elephant statant on a ground with an embattled tower on its back.
Across the top of the wreath is a frosted gilt metal scroll bearing the burnished motto, 'Fortitudo et Fidelitas'.
The elephant is mounted by means of screws and nuts through a similar shaped piece of white metal attached to the circlet.
On the reverse of the circlet, are scratched the owner's initials, 'W.B.T.'
The brooch bears a horizontal brooch fitting upon the reverse.