Scottish Agate and Scottish Agate Jewellery

SCOTTISH AGATES AND SCOTTISH AGATE JEWELLERY
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ENGLISH AGATE AND MARBLE JEWELLERY

Written by Isabella Macready

I've been interested in Scottish agates and Victorian Scottish pebble jewellery ever since I inherited my Scottish grandmother's bracelet. Mounted in silver, it includes a variety of agates including Burn Anne.

A Scottish pebble brooch with stones including jasper and Burn Anne. Like many Scottish brooches it is mounted in silver and backed with slate.

ENGLISH AGATE, DEVON MARBLE AND TORQUAY MARBLE JEWELLERY

Victorian agate and hardstone jewellery was not only made in Scotland. Often mistaken for Scottish workmanship, jewellery was also made in Devon, Cornwall and Derbyshire.
The materials used included Devon fossils, Ashford marble from Derbyshire, Devon marbles, imported malachite and other regional marbles and hardstones.

This is an example of a hardstone, Devon marble and fossil brooch, and was made in Torquay.
One distinctive feature in Devon marble jewellery is the use of fossils, including fossilised coral.

Malachite, Ashford marble and Devon fossils.
The Devon pieces were made for a shorter period than Scottish pebble jewellery, paperweights, rulers, thermometers, tables and other large items were also produced.

For more Devon marble pieces click here.

A Cotham marble brooch from Bristol in Somerset.
Cotham Picture Marble is also known as Landscape Marble.

A Cornish serpentine brooch from Cornwall.

Torquay and Devon Marble

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