Ne/1056.Vintage silver Scottish or Irish Clan or family brooch "Semper Paratus" Edinburgh 1956 made by Medlock & Craik, Inverness high quality

A small vintage silver Scottish clan or family brooch in the form of a circular garter with the motto
"Semper Paratus" (always ready) in the upper section of the garter, the lower section has been nicely engraved, in the centre is a hand holding a blacksmith's hammer, just over an inch or 3 cm across, hallmarked to the rear Edinburgh 1956 and made and supplied by Medlock & Craik of Inverness, good pin and safety "C" catch.
The list of names connected with this motto are not complete, what I can find are here.
Armitage -- Armytage -- Constable -- Elphinstone -- Fuller -- Johnstone -- Lecky -- Mc Cready -- Phillpotts -- Postlethwaite -- Purchas -- Royds -- Sheehan -- Upton -- Usticks. high quality