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
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.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 29th February 16 at 04:14 AM.
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That may well have been what the maker was trying to achieve but that rose on the brooch is definitely the rose within a rose that represents the Tudors. Though of course James IV married Margaret Tudor ( Henry VIIIs sister)
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