WW1 Sterling Silver Highland Light Infantry Sweetheart Brooch & Ring
Code: 17141
£145.00 Approx $182.16, €169.99, £145
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For sale is a WW1 Sterling Silver Highland Light Infantry Sweetheart Boxed Brooch & Ring. Both ring and brooch is in excellent condition and are both made for the highland light Infantry. The ring is a size P, and both ring and brooch weigh 10.33 grams. Both ring and brooch come in this beautiful tartan decorated jewellers box by J R Anderson, Glasgow.
These little pieces of jewellery are often miniatures of the badges of military regiments, naval units, the Royal Flying Corps and the RAF. These are generally known as sweetheart brooches because they were often given as romantic keepsakes by members of the armed forces to their wives and girlfriends before they left for the front. One Londoner recalled that they ‘were received as gifts, love tokens or symbols to display that one of your loved ones was “doing their bit”‘ and remembered that ‘almost every female seemed to wear one’. Widely sold in retail and jewellery stores throughout the country and in small shops set up in military camps where last-minute gifts could be purchased before embarkation, families visibly articulated their support for their men as they left for potentially lengthy periods of separation in wartime by wearing brooches that matched the soldiers’ insignia.
This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.
