Victorian Deer Stickpin

Beautiful quality Victorian  high carat gold stickpin fashioned as a female deer c.1870.

1/2 inch across.8 grams.

In the c19th the Scottish Highlands were romanticised by the English aristocracy and especially Queen Victoria and the deer was the ultimate symbol. By 1912 one fifth of the entire country of Scotland, 3,599,744 acres, was under deer forest.