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Our Button Finds
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This page was last updated 25 Feb 2003
Weekend Wanderers member Mick Seabrook found the lovely button pictured below in South Hertfordshire.
Mick would be grateful if any one could help to shed more light on this find. The button is dated at the bottom like a coin and the date is shown as 1807, the text on the button reads "West of England"
Weekend Wanderers member Dave Carpenter found this lovely silvered livery button with unusual figures on it at one of our Buckinghamshire digs on Sunday 12th March. The chap on the button seems to have been 'Gifted ?' with two bottoms, or has been twisted around halfway down. The button was made by I. Nutting & Son of King Street in Covent Garden, London between 1800 and 1840. Are there any Button experts out there that could shed some more light on this button ?
Dave scanned the button using a ScanMaker E6 and used Adobe Photoshop for sizing and improving the contrast. A lovely find Dave and thank you for sharing it with us.
Ian Mason found the livery button shown below on a recent club dig.
Ian says the button features a Demi-lion
rampant holding halberd, it retains most of its silvering and is enscribed
on rear FIRMIN & SONS Ltd, STRAND, LONDON.
Any livery button buffs out there know if there is a link with the Tring,
Hertfordshire
area?