Finest 1920’s Art Deco Iona Scottish Agate Cufflinks

A stunning pair of oval and lozenge art deco blue - green Iona agate cufflinks with a chain link connecting the two stones.

Beautiful blue banded agate to three faces the fourth being a wonderful green colour. An oval front section and an art deco lozenge shape back section to the link. Chain linking the two parts of the cufflink.

The Iona Shop Glasgow was found in the Argyll Arcade Glasgow. At the start of the Buchanan street where it meets Argyle Street and St Enoch Square, is the historic Argyll Arcade, which opened in 1827 with sixty-three shops and is now the oldest Victorian shopping centre in Britain. Brilliant stylish Victorian Arcade with numerous jewellery and watch shops covering the whole spectrum of watches and jewellery.

Iona the agates are generally smaller than those found on the Isle of Mull, and are blue / grey in colour. It is thought Iona agates may well have been brought down to Iona in the last ice age carried under glaciers.

In good used antique condition.

Size approx. Oval 16mm x 12mm - Lozenge 20mm x 6mm

Iona - The Holy Isle ( Scots Gaelic - Chaluim Chille ) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though there are other buildings on the island. Iona Abbey was a centre of Gaelic monasticism for three centuries

The House of Labhran - Sourcing a range of vintage Scottish jewellery. Including Agate jewellery. Including orange and mustard jaspers from the Campsie Fells in Stirlingshire, Banded Perthshire agates and green and red speckled bloodstones from the Isle of Rum.

We source Scottish hallmarked sterling silver, vintage glengarry badges, plaid brooches, kilt pins and bracelets. With jewellery from classic Edinburgh and Glasgow makers like Robert Allison and Thomas Kerr Ebbutt and provincial Scottish silversmiths.