Show Us Your Kilt Pins.

**bhamscot** · 22nd July 15, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Well I'm reviving this, one of my favourite threads!

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First this interesting one showing what appears to be the top of an old church, possibly St Giles, Edinburgh. Can anyone help identify it? (EDIT: is this the Wallace Monument, Stirling?)

I've just joined and this is my first post! You may already have replies to this question, but I haven't been all the way through this thread yet, and I'm afraid I'll lose my place if I don't just answer now...

I think your pin is the top of St Giles in Edinburgh, perhaps with the very top part of the spire broken off. It's the wrong shape for the Wallace Monument, but has the little "bumps" that the top of St Giles has.

It could be another cathedral of course, but looks very much like St Giles.

I'm in the US now, but lived in and around Edinburgh for 10 years, before returning 4 years ago...

**Tenmiles** · 23rd July 15, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Tarheel

A long time friend of mine (no joke, his name is William Wallace) owns a 1960's alternative tobacco shop (that he opened during that era) here in Oxford named "Local Color". He spotted me in my kilt and found in his private collection of shawl broaches, this pewter medallion. "Hippies" had the coolest stuff! I'm considering it as the focal point of the Black Watch I plan to obtain in the future.

Fascinating. I have a large leather pouch full of various pewter buttons, left over from my stint as a bootmaker in a leathershop; among them are a handful of buttons with precisely this design (likely the same size too); the only difference being a ring soldered to the back, rather than a pair of pins.
They're certainly not "vintage", the ones I have. Somewhere, someone out there is producing attractive pewter buttons of various designs, including one with this same mould.

**Maczimus** · 23rd July 15, 02:28 PM

Doing some research led me to the name MacDiarmada. My last name is McDearmont. I have a brooch pin with the same circle in the middle. goes well with my Black Watch tartan!

**McMurdo** · 24th July 15, 08:47 AM

Here is my latest kilt pin for the Wildcat tartan. I wanted something special for this tartan so I went onto ebay to see what was around and got this Victorian era pin at a great price. I am very pleased with it and am now looking for a Victorian Agate Anchor pin.

**kilted firefighter** · 10th November 15, 03:27 PM

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**RectaPete** · 11th November 15, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by Maczimus

Doing some research led me to the name MacDiarmada. My last name is McDearmont. I have a brooch pin with the same circle in the middle. goes well with my Black Watch tartan!

Irish clan crests, while not "official", have a nice design incorporating the claddagh, our symbol of loyalty, in this case, to the name as not many clans have officially recognised chiefs anymore

May get one in the Ryan name to wear with a nice Irish kilt

**Michael Weatherhead** · 13th November 15, 10:53 AM

You guys have given me good ideas. I hadn't thought "outside the box." Was only gonna use kilt pins, on my kilts. However, you've shown me that other pins will work. I hadn't thought of that. I actually have other pins, which would look good. By the way, I like the Led Zeppelin pins, how cool! When my wife and I travel to Tucson, or the Phoenix area, we're kinda weird. We like to shop at thrift stores. Lately, I've been looking through their jewelry cases, for kilt pins. But, thanks to this thread, I'm gonna take a closer look, and keep a more open mind. My one and only kilt pin is a shiny sword, with a deer head/antlers on it. Bought it from ebay. Not much to brag about.

**Michael Weatherhead** · 13th November 15, 11:00 AM

Take a close look at the Walter Scott Monument, in Edinburgh. To me, this pin looks like it, but like you said, it appears as if the top of the pin (or monument) is missing. Look at the buttresses, on images of the monument, and those on your pin. To me, they're identical. I, too lived in Edinburgh, in the early 80's.

**Michael Weatherhead** · 13th November 15, 11:05 AM

Wow. An aztec calendar pin, on a kilt. Who would have thunk it? Just had a goofy idea....I could wear my old Az Dept of Corrections badge, on my kilt......naw.. I'd rather find some cool pins to wear, like you guys have done. I haven't worked for the prison in years. Actually grew to hate it, but that's another story. (side note: once attended a funeral for a fellow Corrections Officer. The AZ DOC actually had pipers come play, at her funeral. It was a sad occasion, but seeing/hearing three pipers, in DOC uniforms/kilts was great)

**KyleAisteach** · 2nd December 15, 04:07 PM

Let's see if I've figured out how to post pictures.

My husband and I kilted up to go to Disneyland for Thanksgiving this year. I wore one of these as my kilt pin:

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It actually worked surprisingly well. It wasn't too big but had a fair amount of weight to it, and it was thematically appropriate.

I doubt if anyone in the park actually noticed, but whatever, right?