Record ID: IOW-70D416
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn post-Medieval copper-alloy button (1700-1800). The shank is missing. This button has a circle of indentations resembling a sunburst. There are similar indentations forming a border. The stub of a shank survives at the back. This button is drab brown. Diameter: 29.0mm; thickness including stub: 2.9mm. Weight: 3.96g. A similar button has been published and dated 1700-1800 (Bailey 2004: 62, fig. 9, ref: 170). Bailey, G. 2004. Buttons & Fasteners 500 BC-AD 1840. Greenlight Publishing, Witham. Essex.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6C1690
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Livery Button from the Modern date of AD1875. The front of the button has a raised rim, is worn and in parts corroded, which has removed much of its silvering. The left half of the front surface bears a rampant Lion, paw raised going left but facing front. On its right hand side there is an Eagle facing left, its wings partly open. Around its neck is a Coronet/Crown, which in Heraldic terms is called "ducally gorged". On its reverse are the makers names and address:- FIRMIN & SONS Ltd. 135, STRAND. LONDON. The makers were at this address for the year AD…
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: SUR-69A7A1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lozenge shaped cast copper alloy button with integral drilled shank. The button is 9.8mm wide with a pyramid shaped front and flat back; the shank is 8.8mm in length, with a rectangular section and oval shaped loop. The front is quarted with a saltire with each face carrying trefoils on traces of a black paint or niello field. As Read (2005), p30 number 96. Late 15th-16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6923DE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Livery Button dating from the Post Medieval - Modern period, circa:- AD 1790 - 1850. The button is in good condition, and on its front bears the head of a Hound, mouth open facing left. It was once gilded, but nearly all traces of this have been worn away. On its reverse its suspension loop is still attached, with two words WARRANTED and GILT above and below it. No manufacturers details available. The button has a diameter of 16.48 mm, is 1.05 mm thick, and weighs 2.5 g.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-681596
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Livery Button of a Post Medieval - Modern date, c:- AD 1790 - 1850. The button was gilded at one time, but most of it has been worn away. Its front bears a Hounds head, mouth open facing left. On the reverse, the suspension loop is still in place although bent towards the back of the button. No makers details are present, just two words one above the other :- WARRANTED. and GILT. The button is 16.05 mm in diameter, weighs 2.4g, and is 0.93 thick.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-672ABE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Livery Button from a Modern date, circa:- AD 1800 - 1870. The front of the button bears the image of a seated Gryphon facing left, tail lifted from the ground. Wings raised above its back, it has a wreath at its breast.( Probably). The surface of the button is worn, but shows signs of gilding, and on the reverse the suspension loop is missing. It is difficult to date this Button more precisely, as the Makers name and address which is useful in providing this information, is missing/illegible through wear. The button has a diameter of 25.0 mm, has …
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6699CE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Livery Button from a Modern date, circa:- AD 1800 - 1840. The front of the button has a rim around its edge, and in its centre bears a Falcon at rest on a Perch/Block facing left. The button has been Silvered, and some of this is missing through wear. On its reverse the suspension loop is missing, but details of the manufacturers are intact :- Nutting & Son. Kings Street. Covent Garden. They manufactured buttons circa AD1800 - 1840. This button has a diameter of 24.88 mm, weighs 5.7 g, and has a thickness of 1.37 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: SUR-65CD02
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
19th century Copper alloy military button, with the front partially lost. The remaining portion has an octofoil or scalloped border around the number 98. The rear of the button comprises a separate element with a shank and groove along the mid portion. Surrounding this is a legend and linear border around the edge, which on one side reads SMITH & WRIGHT with initials S W inside. The legend on the other side is almost illegible, but probably reads BIRMINGHAM on the basis of comparable examples. This is a tunic button for the 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot and dates to bet…
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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