The King's kilt pin has Victorian feel to it for me.
One of the many interesting aspects to The Highlanders of Scotland portraits is that few men are wearing kilt pins, and most of the kilt pins which are seen are essentially smaller versions of their round Clan bonnet badges.
The thin vertical sword, dirk, axe, etc kilt pins seem to start taking off after 1900.
BTW there is one pipe band, Boghall & Bathgate, who wears their same fullsize bonnet badge as a kilt pin as well.
To me it just looks too big. Carrick did make those Clan badges in three different sizes and I think the middle size would make a better kilt pin than the big Glengarry size that Boghall uses.
The biggest size was exactly right for a Glengarry.
The middle size was exactly right for a Balmoral.
It used to be common to see pipe bands wearing a mix of the two sizes on their Glengarries, or the whole band wearing the Balmoral size.
The small one seemed to be intended as a lapel pin.
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