3-039-176 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bracelet presented by the people of the Ross of Mull to Princess Louise, 1871. 'Some of the jewellery and other beautiful things given to Princess Louise by her friends, upon the happy occasion of her marriage to the Marquis of Lorne, were shown in the engravings we published within a week or two after the wedding-day. We now engrave a representation of the bracelet given to her Royal Highness by the tenantry and other people of the Ross of Mull. The Ross, as our readers know, is the district forming the south-west promontory of the Isle of Mull, which belongs to the Duke of Argyll. This bracelet is composed of pieces of the peculiar green serpentine of Iona, set in gold and mounted on a gold band by Mr. Sanderson, of Edinburgh. In the Duke of Argyll's little book on Iona, which we lately noticed, will be found some account of the geology, as well as the history, of that interesting islet, so closely neighbouring the Ross of Mull; the material chosen for this ornamental work seems to be found in rich veins, traversing the diverse rock strata, and to be worthy of some attention'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.