Record ID: HAMP-CB370B
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper alloy button of the Stockbridge Labourers' Friends' Association, dating from 1838. The button is probably 19th century in date. It is circular in shape with convex front and concave reverse, at the centre of which is a separately soldered loop. It measures 25mm in diameter. Obverse: STOCKBRIDGE // LABOURERS FRIEND // ASSOCIATION Reverse: DOUGHTY & Co // LONDON // 103 St. MARTINS LANE The Labourer's Friend Society was a society founded by Lord Shaftesbury in the United Kingdom in 1830 for the improvement of working class conditions. The Stockbridge branch came into …
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 14th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Andover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-4F7060
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval (1500-1700) incomplete lead button missing most of its integral loop. It measures 25.03mm in diameter, is 10.69mm thick and stands 12.77mm talln with the incomplete loop. It weighs 20.40g. The button is solid and convex to the front. It is decorated with a central raised pellet around which are 10 radiating raised lines, some parallel to the next. Five pellets (possibly originally more) are arranged between the lines at the outside edge.
Created on: Monday 6th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9015B4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late post medieval copper alloy button, 25mm in diameter, hollow, with a separate backplate and integral loop. Obverse: Cast in relief, a seated figure to left, apparently Mr Punch who is well wrapped up, with feet in bowl of hot water and sipping gruel. Inscription above, THE PREVAILING EPIDEMIC Reverse: Impressed into back plate, TREBLE STAND // EXTRA RICH The prevailing epidemic was an expression used both in the case of cholera and influenza. In this case it is the latter. There is a cartoon in Punch vol 13 (1847) p.225 , which illustrates Mr Punch with influenza, …
Created on: Tuesday 25th March 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-FE8961
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy flat button dating c. 1875-95, surface finish lost and measuring 25mm in diameter. Obverse Description: On a ducal coronet, a martlet to the left. Reverse Description: Maker; C. PITT & Co 50 ST. MARTINS LANE LONDON in relief around loop. This button can be related to about 14 families. It is possibly Temple of Stower in Buckinghamshire or Kempsey in Worcestershire. See Fairbairn's Crests 1892, Plate 96, no. 12. The button was made by Charles Pitt and Co who were at the address give between 1875-95.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-FE75B3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt or brass plated copper alloy button, domed with a hollow back measuring 25mm in diameter and dated to c.1850-75. Obverse Description: Lion's head erased, gorged with a ducal coronet. Reverse Description: Maker; FIRMIN & SONS 13 CONDUIT ST. LONDON in relief around loop. This button can be related to at least nine families. The only one with a local connection appears to be Tayler of Grafton in Oxfordshre. See Fairbairn's Crests 1892, Plate 18, no. 5.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-FE61C2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silvered, flat copper alloy button measuring 23mm in diameter. Obverse Description: Crest; Lion rampant gorged, holding between its forepaws an escutcheon charged with a spearhead. Reverse Description: Maker; T. CHUBB 6 SPITAL SQUARE in relief around a broken loop. There are two families who used a related crest, it is very close to that used by Kames of Presteign in Radnorshire. See Fairbairn's Crests, 1892, Plate 1, no.6.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-FE4DB7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy, silvered button from the livery of th 1st Baron Londesborough and can be dated between 1863 when Lord Londesborough married and 1885 when he received an earldom. The button is domed, measuring 16mm in diameter. Obverse Description: Dimidiated shield with the arms of Londesborough and Beaufort, below a baron's coronet. supported by a horse and a stag and above the motto ADVERSA VIRTUTE REPELLO. Reverse Description: Corroded, makers name lost but ?LONDON.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-FE3E13
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Victorian copper alloy button of the Wiltshire Yeomanry measuring 16mm in diameter, gilt or brass plated and domed.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-69F552
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two buttons of copper alloy, both having lost ther back loops, with diameters of 17 and 18mm. Date: Medieval/Post-Medieval
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-806A76
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Royal Regiment of Artillery copper alloy uniform button. It has a diameter of 22mm, is hollow backed with the loop broken off. On the obverse is a crown surmounting three guns with a scroll beneath with UBIQUE, all within a scalloped edge. The inscription on the reverse is NUTTING LONDON. This type of button was in use from 1838 until 1855. However as the maker I Nutting of Covent Garden appears to have been in business only between 1800 and 1840, the button would seem to be quite closely dated to the very end of the 1830's.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-B079C5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy disc with a diameter of 23mm. It has a raised floral pattern. Possibly a button plate.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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