Record ID: HESH-4A9931
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three nineteenth-century cast and machine pressed copper alloy livery buttons with identical designs, two incomplete and one complete. The buttons are circular in plan. The obverse on all three is convex and depicts the Walcot family crest - a Bull's / Bison's head with a coronet / crown around the middle / lower neck. The Bull is arising from a cushion. All three have stamped maker's details on the reverse which is concave, "P&S FIRMIN/153 STRAND LONDON/& 13 CONDUIT ST". The buttons are silvered on the front. There is a small cast stud on the reverse, on two of the buttons the loop i…
Created on: Monday 16th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2018
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Record ID: SOM-4A6B50
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper-alloy trade weight dating c.1825 - 1835. The weight is circular with a raised rim on the top. The bottom surface is flat. The top surface of the weight has been stamped with two concentric circles, the words 'IMPERIAL' (at 12 o'clock) and 'STANDARD' (at 6 o'clock), a crowned WR positioned centrally and a stamp attributing to Somerset districts (at 8 o'clock). Biggs (1992:54-56) suggests that the 'WR crowned' stamp continues from the use of the 'crowned GR' stamp, which was used widely on weights that were made outside major centres in the late eighteenth and earl…
Created on: Monday 16th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2018
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