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Hunting Brooches

Jagdabzeichen – hunting brooches, also known as hunting pins – are designed according to old traditions for mainly individual families with their particular hunting grounds. The brooches may or may not include the family coat of arms. Because some hunting grounds are characterised by their unique flora and fauna, these are sometimes replicated on the brooch design; for example, a wreath honouring the alpine rose, a rare flowering plant, can be featured, especially when the plant grows abundantly in the area of the hunting event. Also, stag and roebuck antlers and chamois horns can be just as much a design element of a brooch as the coronet of a prince or a count.

The custom of presenting the Jagdkönig – the successful “king of the hunt” or huntress – with a precious, timeless trophy following the hunt’s conclusion, is so old that nobody can actually remember who invented it. Nor does anyone know why this custom is so popular in Austria and Germany, but not in Anglo-Saxon countries. What is known is that Maison Köchert has been creating particularly beautiful hunting brooches since the early 19th century – for, amongst others, the Habsburg imperial family – and is therefore one of the oldest producers in the entire German-speaking world.

Hunting brooches are usually made of silver, sometimes gold-plated or decorated with gemstones. Small mementos of great adventures in nature.