Antique Scottish Medium Smokey Quartz - Cairngorm Waistcoat Buttons - Set of five

In true Victorian - Edwardian style these smokey quartz buttons dress a waistcoat for that extra style and are perfect for a dress kilt waistcoat. Add a little extra style to you bias cut tartan kilt waistcoat.

Cairngorm is a variety of smoky quartz found in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. It usually has a smoky yellow-brown colour, though some specimens are greyish-brown. It is used in Scottish jewellery and as a decoration on kilt pins and the handles of sgian dubhs The largest known cairngorm crystal is a 23.6 kg (52 lb) specimen kept at Braemar Castle.

In good used antique condition. Like any natural stone they have slight variations in colour and tone.

Button size approx. 12 mm = approx 1/2” x 1/2” including shank

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.