Spitfire Pendant

Martin de Ruyter

Spitfire Pendant

$99.00

Each one unique and handmade in Nelson by Martin de Ruyter

New Zealand Coin Spitfire, Sterling Silver Chain

Spitfire approx. 2.5 x 2cm, Sterling Silver Chain 23cm

"My late grandfather James Fisher taught me how to shape coins into the shape of Spitfire fighter aircraft. 

Jim, then a 15-year old boy in war-torn England, fashioned these brooches from English coins. He made them during tea breaks while building real Spitfires for the RAF in an aircraft factory near his home in Swindon.

I use non-legal New Zealand coins.

My grandfather met my grandmother in the same spitfire factory where she too was employed during World War II.

I use my grandfathers, great grandfathers and great great grandfathers tools."

- Martin de Ruyter