The term ‘luckenbooth’ is commonly used to describe heart brooches in Scotland. The word refers to the locked booths or shops that formed the goldsmithing and jewellery quarter in Edinburgh’s Old Town, next to St Giles Kirk, where it is believed that many of these brooches were made until the booths were torn down in 1817.

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