Thistle Kilt Pin

A Pewter Kilt pin with a Thistle Design in the centre attached to a Kilt. A yellow stone at the top of the kilt pin
A Pewter Kilt pin with a Thistle Design in the centre attached to a Kilt. A yellow stone at the top of the kilt pin
A Pewter Kilt pin with a Thistle Design in the centre attached to a Kilt. A yellow stone at the top of the kilt pin

Thistle Kilt Pin

Pin Scotland's national emblem to your kilt. The Thistle Pewter Kilt Pin is handmade in some of the finest British Pewter and set with a warm amber stone.

Made at our Birmingham pewter workshop, it measures 98mm long and 38mm wide and weighs around 30g, properly substantial, as a kilt pin needs to be. It arrives in a presentation box, which makes it a gift for Burns Night, weddings, St Andrew's Day, a piping graduation or retiring Highlanders.

Folklore puts the invention of the kilt pin in the Victorian era and credits Queen Victoria herself. The story goes that during a review of the Douglas Highlanders at Balmoral, a young soldier was struggling to stand still in a stiff wind. The Queen unpinned a brooch from her own clothes and discreetly fastened the front of his kilt. True or not, the kilt pin has been a fixture ever since.

See more of our pewter kilt pins.

  • Specification
    • Handmade in our Birmingham workshop from some of the finest British Pewter
    • Scottish thistle design set with an amber stone
    • Measures 98mm long and 38mm wide
    • Weighs approx. 30g
    • Comes in a presentation box
Product code: 62100
$0.00
$20.45

QTY


  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Mastercard
  • Visa
  • Maestro
A Pewter Kilt pin with a Thistle Design in the centre attached to a Kilt. A yellow stone at the top of the kilt pin

Share the love with your friend

Complete the form below and we'll email your friend about this product


You’ll earn 0 reward points with this purchase.

Be one of the first to know!

We’re sorry we’re out of stock but we can let you know as soon as it's available if you enter your email address below.

A Pewter Maker picking up an Antique Mould

A E Williams (Est 1779) Ltd is one of Britain's oldest pewter makers, still run by the family that founded it nearly 250 years ago. 


The story began when Thomas Williams started a small workshop making flatware and dishes from his home on the Welsh border, and from there the craft passed down through eight generations of the same family, all the way to Rebecca Johnson, who joined the business in 2015. 


Today we're based at our workshop in Digbeth, Birmingham, where we've been since the early 1970s.

OUR STORY
Pouring molten pewter into a bronze mould

We work from a collection of over 1,500 antique bronze moulds, some of which are centuries old. Many were made by hand long before machine tooling existed, and we still use them today, alongside moulds and skills of our own, to produce pieces with the kind of character that mass production simply can't replicate.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

At A E Williams, the materials we work with have been chosen over nearly 250 years of making things properly. Pewter sits at the heart of everything we do, but we also work with slate, glass, leather, and wood — each selected because it brings something the others can't: a different feel, a different occasion, a different kind of beauty.

Whatever you're looking for, every material we use is chosen to last, and to look better for it.

OUR MATERIALS