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A beautiful pair of silver Celtic cufflinks depicting West Highland galley sailing ships or birlinns set with a turquoise-green enamel. The reverse is stamped with the maker’s mark ‘WHD’ and hallmarked sterling silver, Birmingham, 1963. Designed by the celebrated Scottish Arts & Crafts maker Alexander Ritchie of Iona, they were made by the Birmingham silversmithing firm William H. Darby.
Mr Darby visited Alexander Ritchie and his wife Euphemia’s Celtic Art shop on the island of Iona (west coast of Scotland) and subsequently became a longstanding business link. His firm carried out the production of jewellery from the Ritchie masters thereby supporting the spread of the Celtic Revival movement during the first half of the twentieth century.
The cufflink design is featured in a book on ‘Iona Celtic Art: The Works of Alexander and Euphemia Ritchie’ by E. Mairi MacArthur, p.73.
Dimensions:
Cufflink faces 2cm x 1.2cm
Weight individually 6.6g