Christmas Brooches

A great collection of unique Christmas brooches, ideal for gifts or a festive treat for yourself. There are brooches and badges based on a wide range of different images with children’s illustrations, traditional Christmas images and brooches based around images from A Christmas Carol. If you wish to purchase any of my items please visit my Etsy page. If you don’t find what you are looking for please contact me to see if I can help.

Each of the brooches and badges below come with a special Christmas card. These cards show off your gift and also save you the worry of wrapping it yourself. To see how your Christmas brooch looks in a card take a look at my free card page.

Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

The stamp used in this brooch comes from the Royal Mail set of commemorative Christmas stamps issued in 1979.

Angel appearing to the Shepherds Christmas brooch

Christmas Cracker Brooch

This brooch is based around an image of Father Christmas pulling a Christmas cracker with 2 children. John Gorham was the designer of the image.

Christmas cracker pulling brooch with Father Christmas and children

Christmas Angel Brooch

Irene von Treskow designed the stamp used here. The Royal Mail issued this stamp in 1998.

Christmas Angel brooch with hands raised in blessing

Glastonbury Thorn Christmas Brooch

The Glastonbury Thorn is said to have first blossomed from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea when Joseph visited Britain from the Holy Land. Lynda Gray designed this 1986 stamp.

Glastonbury Thorn Christmas Brooch

Christmas Angel with Trumpet Brooch

Sally Stiff designed the stylish stamp used for this brooch. The Christmas Angel stamp was issued in 1972.

Christmas Angel with Trumpet Brooch

Father Christmas with Cracker Brooch

This brooch features a traditional stamp image of Father Christmas holding a cracker. John Gorham designed the stamp which was issued in Christmas 1997.

Father Christmas Brooch - holding cracker

Children Building A Snowman Brooch

Brooch based on a charming traditional scene with 2 children building a snowman in a churchyard.

Building a Snowman Brooch

Christmas Post with Pillar Box

Another traditional looking brooch. This brooch shows some colourful birds holding mail flying around a red pillar box. Tony Meeuwissen designed the stamp which was issued in Christmas 1983.

Christmas Pillar Box and Christmas Post brooch

Three Shepherds Christmas Brooch

Another traditional looking piece of jewellery. This brooch is based on the 5d stamp issued for Christmas 1969.

Three Shepherds Christmas brooch

Child’s Father Christmas Brooch

This bright representation of a cheery Father Christmas was the work of 5yr old Samantha Brown from Rhoose in Glamorgan. It resulted from a competition run by the Blue Peter children’s tv programme.

Father Christmas painted by young child brooch - Blue Peter Competition stamp

Tanad Valley Plygain Brooch

This image shows the Plygain or early Christmas morning carol service. This brooch shows the Plygain taking place in the Tanad Valley .

Tanad Valley Plygain - Traditional Welsh Christmas brooch

King of the Orient Christmas Brooch

This brooch incorporates a Christmas stamp from 1966. The 2 stamps issued as Christmas commemorative stamps were the result of a Blue Peter competition for children.

The 1966 Christmas issue represented the first time special stamps were issued by the GPO for Christmas. The previous year however had seen the launch of special Christmas aerogrammes or air letters.

Christmas brooch based on first GPO Christmas stamp issue. 
 in 1966

Madonna and Child Brooch

Madonna and Child brooch - traditional christmas - US 5c stamp

Angel Praying Christmas brooch

Christmas brooch - Angel Praying

Good King Wenceslas, the Page and Peasant Christmas brooch

Christmas Brooch - Good King Wenceslas, the Page and Peasant

Christmas Brooch – Angel with Mandolin

Christmas Brooch  - Angel with Mandolin

Christmas Brooch with European Robin on Railings and Holly

Christmas Brooch with European Robin on Railings and Holly.jpg

Christmas Brooch – Angels with Harp and Lute

Christmas Brooch - Angels with Harp and Lute

Christmas Brooch – Black Madonna and Child from Haiti

Christmas Brooch - Black Madonna and Child from Haiti

Christmas brooch – Angel Gabriel

Christmas brooch - Angel Gabriel, St James, Pangbourne

Christmas brooch – ‘Madonna and Child’ (Marianne Stokes)

Christmas brooch - 'Madonna and Child' (Marianne Stokes)

American Traditional Christmas brooch- Angel Gabriel

American Traditional Christmas brooch- Angel Gabriel

Come Let Us Adore Him Christmas brooch

Christmas Brooch - 'Come let us adore Him' - Dianne Tchumut

Christmas Brooch – Madonna and the Infant Jesus

Christmas Brooch - Madonna and the Infant Jesus - (India)

Six Geese a Laying, Five Gold Rings, Four Colly Birds Christmas Brooch

Six Geese a laying, Five Gold Rings, Four Colly Birds Christmas brooch  - designed by David Gentleman

Adoration of the Magi Christmas brooch

Adoration of the Magi Christmas brooch - (York Minster, c 1355)

Madonna and Child brooch

Madonna and Child brooch - St. Marys Bilbury

Principal Boy Pantomime brooch

Principal Boy Pantomime brooch

Pantomime Genie brooch

Pantomime Genie brooch

Robins on Bird Table brooch

Robins on Bird Table brooch

Robins with Snowman brooch

Robins with Snowman brooch

The Annunciation – Christmas brooch

The Annunciation brooch

Hark the Herald Angels Sing Christmas brooch

Hark the herald angels sing Christmas brooch

Shepherds and Apparition of the Angel Christmas brooch

Christmas Brooch - Shepherds and Apparition of the Angel

Mary, Joseph and Christ in the Manger – Christmas brooch

Mary, Joseph and Christ in the Manger - Christmas brooch

Ely Cathedral Christmas Brooch

Ely Cathedral Christmas Brooch - 14th-century Peasants from stained-glass window

Adoration of the Magi Christmas Brooch

Christmas Brooch Adoration of the Magi

Herald Angel Christmas Brooch

Herald Angel Christmas Brooch

‘The Virgin Mary with Infant Christ’ brooch

'The Virgin Mary with Infant Christ' Christmas brooch

Choctaw Virgin Mother and Child brooch (Fr. John Giuliani)

Choctaw Virgin Mother and Child Christmas brooch (Fr. John Giuliani)

A Christmas Carol brooches collection

A lovely collection of Christmas brooches based around the brilliant images produced by Quentin Blake in 1993 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Dicken’s classic Christmas story.

Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim brooch

Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim brooch (stamp designed by Quentin Blake)

Scrooge brooch

Scrooge brooch - A Christmas Carol (stamp designed by Quentin Blake)

The Prize Turkey brooch

A Christmas Carol brooch - The Prize Turkey (image designed by Quentin Blake)

Scrooge’s Nephew brooch

Scrooge's Nephew brooch A Christmas Carol

Mr and Mrs Fizziwig brooch

Mr and Mrs Fizziwig brooch - A Christmas Carol (stamp designed by Quentin Blake)

As it’s not possible to show my complete range of Christmas brooches on my website or Etsy if you can’t find a particular item please contact me as I might be able to help. Thank youfor looking.