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A pair of silver bracelets and necklace, circa 1880, the shaped square links alternating...
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A pair of silver bracelets and necklace, circa 1880, the shaped square links alternating with gild Celtic knots, the necklace en suite, the two bracelets joining to form a necklace, unmarked, the bracelets in a purple velvet case with gilt lettering to exterior reading ‘LUCKY LINKS OF GLEN TANA’, bracelet length 18.5cm, necklace length 38cm. £500-£700
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Provenance: Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.
Thence by family descent.
'The Lucky Links of Glen Tana' refers to a knot pattern that was seen in a hoard recovered from an ancient cairn on the Glen Tanar estate in 1843. Owned by the Marquess of Huntly, Glen Tanar was first leased to Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, a wealthy Manchester barrister, banker and politician, in the 1860s. His daughter, Amy Brooks, married Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, in 1869. By then Sir William, still a tenant, had fallen in love with the estate and employed over 250 masons to build a large house, cottages for workers, a school, stables, roads and bridges. He purchased Glen Tanar, or Glen Tana as he preferred to call it, from his son-in-law some years later.
The Aberdeen Journal on Wednesday 29 March 1843, recorded 'some woodcutters in pursuit of rabbits on the hill of Knockie in Glentanner [sic] accidentally discovered under a cairn an ancient burial place, covered by a large flat stone. On removing this, they found articles including two bronze vessels, capable of holding about two-thirds of a pint, of neat workmanship, cast in rather an elegant shape, with a handle on one side; seventeen spear- or axe-heads of bronze, known among antiquaries by the name of celts; from thirty to forty bronze bracelets; six bronze rings of good workmanship, of different sizes'. An Ordnance Survey Name Book entry relating to the hoard was made in 1865, when Sir William was at Glen Tanar, and it is more than likely that this is when he first came across the hoard and Celtic ‘lucky link’ emblem.
Sir William commissioned jewellers, to include Phillips Brothers, to create silver bracelets and necklaces using this 'lucky link' knot and gifted them, often as wedding presents, throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Contemporary newspapers record these wedding gifts and often list them as made in silver and gold. In 1894 it is also recorded that Sir William presented the Lady Mayoress of Manchester with an official collar and badge based on the Lucky Links of Glen Tana. and made by Phillips Brothers.
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Gross weight 140gm.
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Provenance: Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.
Thence by family descent.
'The Lucky Links of Glen Tana' refers to a knot pattern that was seen in a hoard recovered from an ancient cairn on the Glen Tanar estate in 1843. Owned by the Marquess of Huntly, Glen Tanar was first leased to Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, a wealthy Manchester barrister, banker and politician, in the 1860s. His daughter, Amy Brooks, married Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, in 1869. By then Sir William, still a tenant, had fallen in love with the estate and employed over 250 masons to build a large house, cottages for workers, a school, stables, roads and bridges. He purchased Glen Tanar, or Glen Tana as he preferred to call it, from his son-in-law some years later.
The Aberdeen Journal on Wednesday 29 March 1843, recorded 'some woodcutters in pursuit of rabbits on the hill of Knockie in Glentanner [sic] accidentally discovered under a cairn an ancient burial place, covered by a large flat stone. On removing this, they found articles including two bronze vessels, capable of holding about two-thirds of a pint, of neat workmanship, cast in rather an elegant shape, with a handle on one side; seventeen spear- or axe-heads of bronze, known among antiquaries by the name of celts; from thirty to forty bronze bracelets; six bronze rings of good workmanship, of different sizes'. An Ordnance Survey Name Book entry relating to the hoard was made in 1865, when Sir William was at Glen Tanar, and it is more than likely that this is when he first came across the hoard and Celtic ‘lucky link’ emblem.
Sir William commissioned jewellers, to include Phillips Brothers, to create silver bracelets and necklaces using this 'lucky link' knot and gifted them, often as wedding presents, throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Contemporary newspapers record these wedding gifts and often list them as made in silver and gold. In 1894 it is also recorded that Sir William presented the Lady Mayoress of Manchester with an official collar and badge based on the Lucky Links of Glen Tana. and made by Phillips Brothers.
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Gross weight 140gm.
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A pair of silver bracelets and necklace, circa 1880, the shaped square links alternating with gild Celtic knots, the necklace en suite, the two bracelets joining to form a necklace, unmarked, the bracelets in a purple velvet case with gilt lettering to exterior reading ‘LUCKY LINKS OF GLEN TANA’, bracelet length 18.5cm, necklace length 38cm. £500-£700
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Provenance: Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.
Thence by family descent.
'The Lucky Links of Glen Tana' refers to a knot pattern that was seen in a hoard recovered from an ancient cairn on the Glen Tanar estate in 1843. Owned by the Marquess of Huntly, Glen Tanar was first leased to Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, a wealthy Manchester barrister, banker and politician, in the 1860s. His daughter, Amy Brooks, married Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, in 1869. By then Sir William, still a tenant, had fallen in love with the estate and employed over 250 masons to build a large house, cottages for workers, a school, stables, roads and bridges. He purchased Glen Tanar, or Glen Tana as he preferred to call it, from his son-in-law some years later.
The Aberdeen Journal on Wednesday 29 March 1843, recorded 'some woodcutters in pursuit of rabbits on the hill of Knockie in Glentanner [sic] accidentally discovered under a cairn an ancient burial place, covered by a large flat stone. On removing this, they found articles including two bronze vessels, capable of holding about two-thirds of a pint, of neat workmanship, cast in rather an elegant shape, with a handle on one side; seventeen spear- or axe-heads of bronze, known among antiquaries by the name of celts; from thirty to forty bronze bracelets; six bronze rings of good workmanship, of different sizes'. An Ordnance Survey Name Book entry relating to the hoard was made in 1865, when Sir William was at Glen Tanar, and it is more than likely that this is when he first came across the hoard and Celtic ‘lucky link’ emblem.
Sir William commissioned jewellers, to include Phillips Brothers, to create silver bracelets and necklaces using this 'lucky link' knot and gifted them, often as wedding presents, throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Contemporary newspapers record these wedding gifts and often list them as made in silver and gold. In 1894 it is also recorded that Sir William presented the Lady Mayoress of Manchester with an official collar and badge based on the Lucky Links of Glen Tana. and made by Phillips Brothers.
Condition Report
Gross weight 140gm.
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Provenance: Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.
Thence by family descent.
'The Lucky Links of Glen Tana' refers to a knot pattern that was seen in a hoard recovered from an ancient cairn on the Glen Tanar estate in 1843. Owned by the Marquess of Huntly, Glen Tanar was first leased to Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, a wealthy Manchester barrister, banker and politician, in the 1860s. His daughter, Amy Brooks, married Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, in 1869. By then Sir William, still a tenant, had fallen in love with the estate and employed over 250 masons to build a large house, cottages for workers, a school, stables, roads and bridges. He purchased Glen Tanar, or Glen Tana as he preferred to call it, from his son-in-law some years later.
The Aberdeen Journal on Wednesday 29 March 1843, recorded 'some woodcutters in pursuit of rabbits on the hill of Knockie in Glentanner [sic] accidentally discovered under a cairn an ancient burial place, covered by a large flat stone. On removing this, they found articles including two bronze vessels, capable of holding about two-thirds of a pint, of neat workmanship, cast in rather an elegant shape, with a handle on one side; seventeen spear- or axe-heads of bronze, known among antiquaries by the name of celts; from thirty to forty bronze bracelets; six bronze rings of good workmanship, of different sizes'. An Ordnance Survey Name Book entry relating to the hoard was made in 1865, when Sir William was at Glen Tanar, and it is more than likely that this is when he first came across the hoard and Celtic ‘lucky link’ emblem.
Sir William commissioned jewellers, to include Phillips Brothers, to create silver bracelets and necklaces using this 'lucky link' knot and gifted them, often as wedding presents, throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Contemporary newspapers record these wedding gifts and often list them as made in silver and gold. In 1894 it is also recorded that Sir William presented the Lady Mayoress of Manchester with an official collar and badge based on the Lucky Links of Glen Tana. and made by Phillips Brothers.
Condition Report
Gross weight 140gm.
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