Hay Sterling Silver Clan Crest Vintage Bonnet Badge

Hallmarked - Made by Thomas Kerr Ebbutt - Edinburgh 1952. Orginally purchased in Oban and with original retailers box.

Family - Hay

Motto - Spare nought

Blazon - A Goat's Head Erased Arg., Armed Or.

SOURCE - Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.

Size. Approx. 50mm x 42mm

The Hays are one of the major clans of Scotland, whose Chiefs, the Earls of Erroll, have been hereditary Lords High Constable of Scotland since Sir Gilbert Hay of Erroll was rewarded with that office after the Battle of Bannockburn by King Robert the Bruce in 1314.