Handmade Military Pip Brooch Creatures red coral and white seed

red coral and white seed beads

It must have been a wonderful clock or pocket watch when it was in its heyday

It's got the best festival vibe hasn't it

It dates possibly from the early 1900s and we think it makes a charming pendant to this necklace of silver-coloured metal and square matt grey beads

Time for something different

Handmade Military Pip Brooch Creatures red coral and white seedWe find old military pips fascinating with their rich colours, intricate goldwork, mottos and designs. It seems a great shame that they so often languish by the boxful gathering dust. Unusable? Not to us. We love to reinvent them and we have combined this example with a smaller pip which we have added into a gold effect oval dropper. The brooch is backed with brilliant blue shiny leather and we have edged both pips with colourful green and red beads.