Vintage Silver Scottish Clan Badge "Semper Paratus" Edinburgh 1956 Medlock & Craik, Inverness. Nr/1015

Small vintage silver Scottish clan or family brooch in the form of a circular garter with the motto. "Semper Paratus" (always ready) in the upper section of the garter, the lower section has been nicely engraved, in the centre is a hand holding a blacksmith's hammer, just over an inch or 3 cm across, hallmarked to the rear Edinburgh 1956 and made and supplied by Medlock & Craik of Inverness, good pin and safety "C" catch. The list of names connected with this motto are not complete, what I can find are here. Armitage -- Armytage -- Constable -- Elphinstone -- Fuller -- Johnstone -- Lecky -- Mc Cready -- Phillpotts -- Postlethwaite -- Purchas -- Royds -- Sheehan -- Upton -- Usticks.