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    Quote Originally Posted by kingandrew View Post
    Another style that is often presented as being antique is the dirk or sgian made primarily with colored stones like agate, held together with silver. I wonder how early these really became popular..
    I have a couple of "kilt pins" which are silver/agate and was told that they were from the Victorian/Edwardian eras, but that may not be accurate.

    OC Richard, an you shed some light on the potential timeframe of such pins as kingandrew mentioned above?

    Examples pictured below. I think the first one predates the second:



    Last edited by ShaunMaxwell; 11th February 19 at 09:42 AM.
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