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Atlas  /  For love  /  Luckenbooth broochNo. 08
Plate IBritain & Ireland · ScotlandLuckenbooth brooch, drawn by Wishlore
Pl. ILuckenbooth brooch. Two hearts under a crown. Drawing: Wishlore.
No. 08  ·  For love  ·  Britain & Ireland

The Luckenbooth brooch

A silver heart, often crowned, given in Scotland as a love token.

Earliest record
Scottish love token, V&A, about 1800
Source
V&A, Luckenbooth brooch
Region
Britain & Ireland · Scotland
Wish
For love
Layers
Record Folk Modern
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The story · three layers

The story, in three layers.

Record, Folk and Modern are kept apart, and each one carries its source.

I
Record
Scotland, about 1800

An Inverness brooch, about 1800

The V&A holds a heart-shaped brooch made in Inverness around 1800, catalogued as a love token.

II
Folk
Scotland

Pinned on a child

The museum record also notes that such brooches were pinned on children against the evil eye and witches — a belief we report as belief.

III
Modern
Wishlore, today

How we tell it

We tell it first as a love token, as the museum record does.

Luckenbooth brooch
Scottish love token, V&A, about 1800
Story and sources on the reverse
Pl. IIThe story card. Every printed piece carries the story and a code that opens the full source list.
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Watch the story

The story, in a minute.

It opens with the pencil construction, then follows the record, how people used it, and the piece we make today. Every fact in it comes from the sources on this page.

Length
0:55
Narration
English, with subtitles on screen
Images
Pencil construction and the atlas drawing on this page, animated; no AI images; jewellery shown as a line drawing
Sources
Listed at the end of the film
Story film · 0:55 · Drawn from the atlas plate · no AI images
In one breath
A silver heart, given to say what was hard to say aloud. Who would you keep it for?
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