Another proud patriot took a gold, emerald and diamond thistle brooch designed by Kutchinsky in 1968, at £2600.
The biggest money on a single lot bid by any Scottish private buyer at the sale was £7500 on a solitaire diamond ring of 2.71 carats.
Pebble jewellery is perennially popular in Scotland, where the native agates, bloodstones and amethysts blend well with the local tartans.
Best of the 30 lots was a 19th century bracelet with three gold-mounted,
barrel-spaced links of hardstone, 8in (20cm) long, which sold at £1500.
At £7500, the skirl of the pearl
Les Ecosses have always had a certain cachet in France and it was the Parisian jewellers Chaumet who, in the 1950s, made this brooch, right, in the form of bagpipes, the naturally dimpled baroque pearl used imaginatively as the bag, the pipes adorned by single cut diamonds and turquoise stones. At Sotheby’s Gleneagles sale it sold to a Scottish private bidder at £4000.
