The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
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Davie Glen Brooch
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Hermione Cooper
09/03/2021
Hand painted homemade brooch in metal mount.
Metal, perspex, paper
7(L) x 4.5(W) cms
1
Silver
Possibly Davie Glen
We saw this wee brooch for sale on e-bay for a couple of pounds and thought it looked very much like a Davie Glen production which we already have in the collection. We can’t be 100% sure but it is very similar... see picture opposite
Davie was a character who spent much of his life wandering around the Scottish mountains and seems to have made brooches to earn a few pennies to fund his impecunious lifestyle. We have lots more of his ‘mountain folk art’ in the collection along with a wee archive...check it out.
Other Davie Glen items can be found by doing a quick search of his name
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Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
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