plaid brooch can anyone identify.

**poochie** · 28th February 16, 10:19 AM

inherited this its on my avatar..can anyone help identify?...

**Mike S** · 28th February 16, 04:13 PM

The photo size isn't large enough to accurately identify what you have. You might want to post some better images in the thread for assistance.

**poochie** · 29th February 16, 12:49 AM

thank you....
i hope you can see this as trying to trace ancestry...

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**Padraicog** · 29th February 16, 03:26 AM

Looks like a "hobbyist's" production. Thistles maybe represent Scotland as does the St Andrew's Cross. The Rose in the centre could well represent the Tudor Rose the floral emblem of England. It was an emblem of the House of Tudor made up of the Red Rose of the House of Lancaster and the White Rose of the House of York and came into being at the end of the Wars of the Roses

**OC Richard** · 29th February 16, 04:11 AM

I agree.

Looks like a home-made thing, somebody putting a sheetmetal X on a quoit, then sticking on various found objects, which look like collar badges.

I've never seen a professionally made plaid brooch with collar badges stuck all over it, like that.

I'd wager the collar badges are made in Pakistan.

One sees the same thing with sporrans, people taking a sporran and sticking one or more collar badges on it to dress it up. (To be distinguished from sporrans manufactured with a sporran badge.)