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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 315533, member: 2844&quot;]I never implied that jewellery with a sentimental attachment to the Jacobite cause isn&#039;t being made today. But it is just that, a sentimental use of the white cockade for instance, but with no political value.</p><p>The strength of the symbolism of truly politically motivated Jacobite jewellery is extremely powerful, it cannot be compared to jewellery of mere sentimental value.</p><p>The imagery was revived during the second Celtic Revival by companies like Saltire Jewellery, along with &#039;the Bruce&#039;s broken axe jewellery&#039; etc. They don&#039;t make it because they support the Jacobite cause, but for sentimental/commemorative reasons. And tourists love it of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>My own Scottish relatives vote SNP and are Catholic, but even they don&#039;t support the Jacobite cause, because with the death of James Stewart, &#039;the Old Pretender&#039; in 1766, there was no Jacobite cause to support. Sure, there was Charles Edward, &#039;Bonnie Prince Charlie&#039;, who had fought on his father&#039;s behalf, but he had turned to drink after the &#039;45, and wasn&#039;t recognized by the pope as king. Charles Edward died in 1788.</p><p>Without Papal and French support, the Jacobites knew their cause was lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the ban on Highland symbols was lifted, the old Scottish and Celtic symbols were revived. But no more real Jacobite jewellery was made, because there was no real Jacobite cause anymore. Sentimental imagery does not constitute a political statement. That is why Jacobite jewellery is so extremely rare and valuable, something that was already mentioned in this thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/sterling-silver-pendant-edinburgh-1735.16299/#post-226231" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/sterling-silver-pendant-edinburgh-1735.16299/#post-226231">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/sterling-silver-pendant-edinburgh-1735.16299/#post-226231</a></p><p>Obb, in the same thread you yourself said of Jacobite jewellery: &quot;a thing worn in secret, which would have got you imprisoned if discovered&quot;. So you do know the difference between genuine Jacobite Jewellery and later sentimental/commemorative jewellery, and know what I meant earlier on in this thread.</p><p>You also called Scotland Hibernia, by the way.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Maybe you were thinking of a nice holiday in the emerald isle?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see any Culloden/Jacobite connection in this lovely brooch, and agree with Bronwen that it could have been made as a private memento.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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