Record ID: IOW-883748
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval-Modern silver plated copper alloy button, c.AD 1800-1950. This is the body of a button with silver plating over a copper alloy core. The button is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in section, with slightly damaged faces and rounded edges. Both faces have a plain central boss and a deep rim, decorated with curved diagonal lines. The reverse has a break in the centre of the face where the attachment loop would have been soldered on. 
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-4A8664
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete circular cast lead alloy horse harness (blinker) mount or strap-mounted bridle rosette of post Medieval to modern date, 45.3mm in diameter and of "composite centre" type (Maslin, 2020). The mount is decorated in high relief, with a exterior border of five-point stars around an annular band with beaded borders and a central recessed area of radial lines. There is a central hole for a separate boss, now missing. The reverse has stumps of integrally cast attachment lugs.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2C422E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late 19th century livery button with a convex silvered face depicting a demi-lion rampant, left, holding a sword. The reverse is concave with a loop shank surrounded by the maker's mark of C & J WELDON / 130 CHEAPSIDE / LONDON, dating the button to c. 1880-1910.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2C2EB2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A smal 19th century livery button. The silvered face depicts a bishops mitre with motto in banner above of IN . CRUCE . SPERO ("I believe in the cross"). The reverse is slightly concave with a broken loop shank surrounded by a maker's mark of R . USHBY / St MARTINS LANE / LONDON, corresponding to Robert Bushby and dating the button to 1806-1824. This button is attributable to Arthur Kett Barclay  FRS, FRAS, FRGS, FGS  (1806-1869) of Bury Hill, Dorking (see Fairbairn (1986) p33; Plat 12 number 10). He was a brewer and a renowned astronom…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-60B403
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A convex cast copper alloy livery button with a tinned facing, depicting a crest of a demi-eagle displayed. The reverse has a maker's mark for Firmin & Sons around a central loop shank.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-25123F
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of identical 19th century livery buttons, found close together. The silvered face depicts a bishops mitre with motto in banner above of IN . CRUCE . SPERO ("I believe in the cross"). The reverse is concave with a loop shank surrounded by a maker's mark of G & W BOGGETT / St. MARTINS LANE / LONDON. This mark dates the buttons to 1835-1838. These are attributable to Arthur Kett Barclay  FRS, FRAS, FRGS, FGS  (1806-1869) of Bury Hill, Dorking (see Fairbairn (1986) p33; Plat 12 number 10). He was a brewer and a renowned astr…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-55A668
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MODERN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 A modern silver plated spoon. The bowl is a regular oval in shape, the stem is narrow at the point where it joins the bowl then widens at the end, which is rounded. The handle curves slightly, and is decorated on the underside at the end with a moulded double curved shape. It is possibly hallmarked JGGxS, in which case it would be of J. G. Graves of Sheffield, who operated from AD 1900-1914 Dimensions: 190mm long and 45mm wide across the bowl, it weighs 33.93g
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2F082E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap slide, most probably for a 19th century horse harness. The front of the object is domed with a Tudor rose style motif that still has the remains of silvering. The reverse is dished and has two lugs that would have sat either side of the strap. There is still iron on the end of the lugs, presumably the remains of an iron fitting. Diameter:34.9mm.  Thickness: 11.98mm.  Weight: 18.97gms.
Created on: Thursday 14th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-EE9841
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tinned copper alloy livery button of mid 19th century date. The button is 25.5mm in diameter and shows a crest of a bull passant the tail turned over the back, left and with garter around containing the motto CONSTANS FIDEI (Constant in loyalty). This attributes the button to the Ridley family. The reverse has a maker's mark FIRMIN & SONS / 153 STRAND LONDON dating the button to c. 1852-1875.
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
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Record ID: SUR-309159
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy livery button. The front is convex and tinned, with a crest or device of a lion leaping on an biting the back of a fleeing bull. The reverse has a soldered loop shank surrounded by a maker's mark of FIRMIN & SONS / 153 STRAND LONDON, dating the button to the early to mid 19th century.
Created on: Friday 9th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-062F99
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large convex button of 19th century date. The face depicts a crowned garter with motto HONI SOIT QUE MAL Y PENSE around a pair of crests comprising couped heads of animals facing left. The surface has a white metal coating. The reverse is concave with a stump of a loop shank and a maker's mark around; this now illegible due to corrosion.
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: NLM-6384EC
Object type: RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ring. Cast ring of unvaried rectangular section, bearing stamped notation on its outer side: PAT. 786660  B2, with an inverted broad arrow sign scratched clumsily at the start. White metal plating appears overall, and the inner surface is extremely finely threaded. The addition of the broad arrow, a mark also appearing on government property up to the mid-20th century, might hint at a military context. The invention the patent refers to remains unestablished by this reporter, though the notation B2 probably denotes a reissued patent or one whose reissue was awaited. T…
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-7FCDC3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat discoidal tinned copper alloy military button of the Honourable Artillery Company. The face depicts the Prince of Wales' crest (plume of three feathers with motto ICH DIEN) with surrounding legend HON ARTILLERY COM. The reverse is flat without any evident makers' marks and has a stump of a loop shank.
Created on: Thursday 13th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
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Record ID: SUR-304106
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy decorative furniture element or finial from the handle of a household item. The fitting has a long shank with circular cross section 4.5mm in diameter, at one end of which is a cylindrical collar and a square terminal, 15.6mm wide, with a hexagonal cross section and eight facets. The apex has a square projection with facetted sides. The surface of the head of the object has traces of a white metal coating.
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
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Record ID: SUR-CD5B46
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small discoidal copper alloy livery button of 19th century date. The face has a crest of a seated lion, left, it's right paw resting on a small shield with a bend across. The reverse has a flattened loop shank surrounded by an illegible maker's mark [...]NOR[...]SON[...].
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-29D253
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Pressed metal disc with four symmetrically disposed attachment loops round its edge, all but one broken; bearing the relief concavo-convex image of the helmeted and draped bust of Minerva; the subject is named in modern capitals. Traces of white metal plating appear on a reddish surface. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1930 Diameter (clear of loops): 29.3mm, Thickness: 0.6mm, Weight: 4.27gms
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-917EB2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 19th century livery button, with a convex tinned face attributable to the Knight family of Chawton, Hampshire. The crest comprises a Demi-Grey-Friar Ppr., Holding In The Dexter Hand A Cinquefoil Slipped Arg., And From The Sinister Wrist A Bracelet Of Beads Pendent Sa.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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Record ID: NLM-69F4D9
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bracelet. A penannular ring comprising two twisted strands of diameter 2.4mm, neatly wound to form a cabled band of diameter c.5.5mm. The ends are fitted into opposed terminals of overall diameter 17mm, each having a cylindrical central element of diameter 11.9mm with four integrally cast juxtaposed oval panels forming a medial expansion for each. The opposed faces of the terminals, which might be applied caps, each bear a precisely moulded decorative scheme of a Maltese cross with a bordered conical boss at its centre. Each arm of the cross is infilled with a three-elemen…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8E28AE
Object type: TAP
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy gas supply tap handle. Cast oval plate, dished on both sides to afford grip, with a knop on top and a waisted cylindrical collar below, the latter formerly continuing as a narrower square-section pin. Traces of degraded or burnt white metal plating appear on the handle. This might appear on fireside fittings such as a gas poker. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 25.5mm, Width: 16mm, Thickness /Diameter (collar): 7.3mm, Weight: 5.93gms
Created on: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waltham/Toll Bar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-7D64BB
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver plated copper alloy split ring of Georgian (19th Century) dating. The ring is circular in shape with floral decorative cast details. A split is present between the front and back halves of the ring, this would have originally opened to enable a charm or another split ring to be joined in. It has an external diameter of 16.0 mm, an internal diameter of 11.6 mm. The hoop is 1.9 mm wide and 1.9 mm thick. It weighs 1.2 g.  Many different designs of split rings are around. The small size of this ring is suggestive that it would be part of a charm bracelet for the s…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2022
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