MacArthur Crest 19th century Scottish Provincial silver badge
MacArthur Crest 19th century Scottish Provincial silver badge
MacArthur Crest 19th century Scottish Provincial silver badge
A very rare MacArthur Crest 18th century Scottish Provincial silver badge made by James Law Aberdeen - Edinburgh.
James Law is listed in the Aberdeen museum as an Aberdeen silversmith and list as the same in Richard W Turner’s book on Scottish provincial silver as an Aberdeen silver. However, there is some talk between Scottish silver experts that he was also working in Edinburgh. Either way it is a very rare clan badge circa 1850’s. Marked J. Law on the back.
FAMILY - MacArthur
MOTTO - Fide et opera - By fidelity and labour
BLAZON - Two Laurel-Branches In Orle.
SOURCE - Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.
Size: 51mm x 65mm
Clan Arthur or Clan MacArthur is a Highland clan that once held lands on the shores of Loch Awe opposite Inishail. The clan has been described as one of the oldest clans in Argyll. Clan Arthur and Clan Cambell share a common origin, and at one point the MacArthurs challenged the seniority of the leading Campbell family.
A branch of MacArthurs from the Isle of Skye were a sept of the MacDonalds of Sleat and were hereditary pipers for the MacDonalds of the Isles.
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