NAM.1983-06-27-1

Officer's plaid brooch, silver, unhallmarked, 1890 (c). Associated with Gordon Highlanders. Design mounted on a flat circular disc with a hole at the centre. A stag's head issuing from a ducal coronet and surrounded by a wreath of ivy. At the base of the wreath, a vertically hatched scroll bearing the burnished motto. Surrounding the whole design is an almost circular wreath, vertically hatched, bearing burnished battle honours. Inscribed centre of scroll. Reverse bears a horizontal brooch fitting. At the top is an impressed thistle and at the base an oblong stamp bearing the raised maker's name and address. At the centre behind the stag's head are scratched initials.