Regalia of Scotland: Crown Sceptre, Sword, and Lord Treasurer's Rod, 1850. 'The lower part [of the crown] consists of two are composed of the purest gold, and the uppermost is surmounted or relieved by a range of fleurs-de-lis, interchanged with crosses fleurees, and with knobs or pinnacles of gold, topped with large under and broader circle is adorned with twenty-two precious stones: topazes, amethysts, emeralds, rubies, and jacinths: they are not polished by the lapidary, or cut into facets, according to fee more modern fashion, but are set plain, in the ancient s
Regalia of Scotland: Crown Sceptre, Sword, and Lord Treasurer's Rod, 1850. 'The lower part [of the crown] consists of two are composed of the purest gold, and the uppermost is surmounted or relieved by a range of fleurs-de-lis, interchanged with crosses fleurees, and with knobs or pinnacles of gold, topped with large under and broader circle is adorned with twenty-two precious stones: topazes, amethysts, emeralds, rubies, and jacinths: they are not polished by the lapidary, or cut into facets, according to fee more modern fashion, but are set plain, in the ancient style of jeweller's V. caused the present Sceptre to be made. It is a slender and elegant rod of silver, about thirty-nine inches in workmanship of the sword is of a fanciful and elegant whole sword is about five feet '. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
Size: 4960px × 2260px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: /, 19th, 19th-century, animal, black, blade, britain, british, bw, century, collector, concept, country, crown, engraved, engraving, ermine, gold, illustrated, iln, location, london, metal, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, pearl, pearls, people, precious, press, print, regalia, royal, royalty, sceptre, scotland, scots, scottish, semi-precious, stone, stones, sword, swords, unknown, victorian, war, warfare, weapon, weaponry, weapons, white
