Scottish Silversmiths

Sheila Fleet Jewellery

We first met Sheila Fleet at a trade show - her stand was crowded by people placing orders for her amazing jewellery - and the same is true today; whenever, we go to buy for our shop, the Sheila Fleet stand has a queue of eager clients.

Sheila Fleet produces an instantly identifiable product range; whether in sterling silver, enamel, gold or platinum, the quality of Sheila's work shines through.

Each design carries Sheila’s origination makers punch mark, SD (Sheila Dearness being her maiden name). All pieces of jewellery that are required to have a hallmark are independently marked for fineness and are assayed at Edinburgh Assay Office.

Sheila Fleet Jewellery is a family business; her husband, Rick Fleet, produces the photography for the product range, as well as Scottish scenes for their gallery in Orkney. Son Martin is the company administrator.

The Sheila Fleet workshop premises in Orkney has increased over the years to keep up with the national and international demand. A small team of local craftsmen and women work with the Fleet family to produce jewellery ranging from Celtic designs to runic and modern designs - the influences are from nature, the sea (just looking out of the workshop window provides inspiration) and from the Orkney culture.

Each piece of jewellery comes boxed with its own design origination card.

Mithril Jewellery - Russell Caldwell

Russell Caldwell set up Mithril in 1988 with the aid of the Prince’s trust. His work is meticulously crafted in sterling silver or gold, embellished with precious stones and, more recently, some enamel work. Each intricately designed piece bears the hallmark of the Edinburgh Assay Office determining the quality and authenticity of the metals.

The Golden Age of Celtic Art and the Art Nouveau movement have inspired Russell to produce intricate and unique pieces of jewellery; he makes brooches to belt buckles, cufflinks to quaichs, earrings to kilt pins.

Win a set of cufflinks - sterling silver ones at that

There's a free competition on our web site - this once closes at the end of April 2008 - and is for a pair of sterling silver celtic design cufflinks. Featuring the Lion Rampant standing in a Celtic frame, these cufflinks are manufactured in Scotland and hallmarked in Edinburgh.

This month's question is fairly easy - (someone commented that the answer on the front page of the site wasn't being too "Smart"!) - however, I just wanted to test and see that the system would work.

Hurry along and put in your entry.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Best
M

New Celtic Charm

We have been selling Celtic Jewellery since 1989 - some gold, some silver and quite a lot of pewter. After all that time, you'd think that we'd run out of new jewellery designs, but this quite simply isn't so. There are so many talented designers out there who create new work which is derived from the priciples of Celtic knotwork - and this is the latest pendant to be featured in our store.

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St. Clement's Church, Rodel, Harris is closely related to the Augustinian nunnery on Iona, a female effigy (known as sheela na gigs) can be found on the South of the Church with a "sister" found in the outer wall on Iona. St. Clement's is a treasure trove of late medieval masonry with several fine examples to be found on it's exterior walls. The Church is dedicated to St. Clement, the 3rd bishop of Rome (after St. Peter) who was martyred in AD 90. It is suspected that the church was commissioned by Alexander MacLeod of Dunvegan.