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Message:: [QUOTE="Shangas, post: 3955230, member: 360"]I'll let you know in a few days! I just sent him an email. Here's part of what I said: Hi >Name<, I don't know if you remember me. I contacted you a few years back, about an old cigarette lighter with the Scotch coat of arms on the front. I'm reaching out again to ask if you can help with something else that I've added to my collection since my last contact. Do you know anything about antique, Scotch College CUFFLINKS? Over the last nine months, I ended up with two sets of Scotch cufflinks. They are chain-links, with the school coat of arms on one end, and "torpedo"-shaped bars on the other. One was found on eBay, and the other pair was sold to me by a dealer in Brisbane, of all places! One is sterling silver, the other is 9ct gold, both made by Damman's Jewellers & Tobacconists in Collins St. Going by the style of the links and what I know of the school's history, I'd say they were made sometime between the late 1920s up until the outbreak of WWII. Given that they were likely made in the middle of the Great Depression when money was tight, surely solid gold and solid silver cufflinks - for a highschool - must've been quite expensive? That being the case, I imagine that these must be at least fairly rare? Of course this is just my speculation here, but I don't see these being offered to ordinary schoolboys. Either staff, or old-boys, more likely, but again, that's only my guess. Why would the school have commissioned something like this? And who would they have been intended for? Any insights at all? Hope you can help! I have included photographs of the cufflinks, front and back. Happy to drop by the archives anytime in the month of May to show them to you, if you wish. Hope to hear back, and hope you've been keeping well! Thanks in advance, >Name<Scotch CollegeClass of 2005. [/QUOTE]

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