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3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards and 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Officers ‘Bone back’ Buttons c.1770-80. Two extremely rare examples, the first 23mm very slightly convex, shows in low relief the Prince of Wales’s Badge & Motto, the motto sited where the coronet would usually be, below the feathers ‘D’ and ‘G’, all within an elaborate inward facing circle of leaves, the bone back retains the original gut fastening, the second 25mm flat shows in very low relief...
Hammer Price: £900
3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards Officer’s ‘Bone and Wooden back’ Coatee Buttons c.1770-80. Two very fine and rare variable pattern examples, both 23mm, with copper gilt faces, what is probably the first pattern shows the Prince of Wales’s badge and Motto, this in place of the coronet, ‘D’ and ‘G’ below the feathers, the whole within an inward facing circle of leaves, bone back with gut fasteners. The second displays the Badge in greater relief, the coronet now shown...
Hammer Price: £500
British Army Cavalry Buttons. A card display containing forty-nine examples Georgian period to Second War. Including two quite good excavated examples, regiments include Household Cavalry, Dragoon Guards, Dragoons (good early 6th), Light Dragoons (13th & 14th), Lancers and Second War 22nd, 23rd, 24th, & 27th, good overall condition (49) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £650
3rd Foot Guards & 51st Regiment of Foot Officers ‘Bone back’ Buttons 1770-80. Two extremely rare examples, the first 24mm, flat, shows in low relief, ‘Gds.’ over ‘3’ within a lined border of florets, the bone back retains the original gut fastening, the second 16.5mm, flat with ’51’ within a French circle and a plain circle in low relief, the bone back retains the original gut fastening, the second with some discolouration to the gilt otherwise very good condition (2) ...
Hammer Price: £1,000
Infantry of the Line Officers Coatee Buttons 1st Foot - 47th Foot, c.1790-1855. A card display of ninety-four examples, mixed large and small, not all regiments are represented. Fine quality examples include plated 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 14th, 17th, 24th, 33rd, 37th, 38th, and 43rd; gilts 1st Foot (GR & WR), 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 25th, 27th, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 37th, 40th, 41st &c. all shanks present, some in need of cleaning otherwise good overall condition (94) £600-£800
Hammer Price: £2,800
Infantry of the Line Officers Coatee Buttons 48th Foot - 99th Foot c.1790-1855. A card display of ninety examples mixed large and small, not all regiments are represented. Fine quality plated examples include 52nd, 54th, 56th, 61st, 62nd, 67th, 68th, 72nd, 81st; gilts 48th, 49th, 55th (2), 65th (early), 69th, 77th (3), 80th, 82nd, 84th, 86th, 87th, 89th, 90th, 92nd, 93rd &c., some gilt and plating loss and many require cleaning otherwise good overall condition (90) £600-£800
Hammer Price: £3,200
British Infantry, Guards and Line, Other Ranks Pewter Coatee Buttons c.1800-55. A card display of thirty-six examples, variable sizes and condition some being excavated, all with shanks but many are poor replacements. Early period ones include 20th, 26th, 49th, and 75th Foot. Two examples to the 57th Foot otherwise all different, generally good condition (36) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £360
British Infantry Other Ranks Tunic Buttons 1855-73. Two card displays of one hundred and seven examples only two of which are small size, excepting the 60th and the Rifle Brigade they are all brass. The following regiments are not represented, 51st, 67th, 89th & 95th, all shanks appear to be present, good overall condition (107) £500-£700
British Infantry Officers Tunic Buttons 1881-1901. Two card displays containing seventy-six examples, three are small size, both KOB & KOSB, Welsh & Welch, DCLI (R340 & 341), Northants (R368 and with Key below the castle), Berkshire & Royal Berkshire, KOYLI (R374 and type 375 but with QVC), are present, that for the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) is a Mess Waiter’s, NO gilt remains on the following, RWF, South Staffs, Shropshire, Middlesex, Wiltshire, Manchester, R Irish Fusiliers, 1st...
Hammer Price: £190
British Army Corps and Volunteer Corps Buttons. A card display of fifty-one examples Georgian period to just post 1902. Artillery, Commissariat, Royal Staff Corps, Hospital Staff, Medical Staff, Military Store, Commissariat & Transport Staff, Military Purveyor, Control Department, Barrack Master, School of Musketry, Medical Staff Volunteers, Militia and Volunteer Artillery, all shanks present, good overall condition (51) £160-£200
Hammer Price: £340
Scottish Regimental Diamond Shaped Doublet Buttons. A card display of seventeen good quality examples, comprising Piper’s white metals to the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers and the 25th King’s Own Borderers, officers gilts to the 42nd (two patterns) 71st (large & small), 72nd, 74th (2), 78th, 79th, 91st (large & small), 92nd, 93rd and two plated examples to the Highland Borderers Light Infantry Militia, all shanks present, some plating loss on one of the last two items otherwise very good...
Hammer Price: £1,900
Yeomanry and Light Horse Volunteers Coatee and Tunic Buttons c.1790-1870. A card display of forty-two good quality items including Loyal Windsor or Loyal Warden Cavalry (4), Loyal Lincolnshire Yeomanry (large & small), Vale of the White Horse Yeomanry, 2nd West York YC, Derbyshire YC, Dorset YC (2), Northumberland & Newcastle Volunteer Cavalry (undress), Queen’s Own Worcs. YC, West Essex, Huntingdon LH, Herts LH, 1st Devon Volunteer Light Horse, Linlithgowshire Yeomanry, London &...
Hammer Price: £750
Volunteer Artillery and Buttons. A card display of eleven good quality examples, one small, officers, 3rd Middlesex, Suffolk, 2nd Hampshire, Kent. O/r’s 1st & 3rd Middlesex, Essex, London Brigade, Berwick-on-Tweed, Worcester (small); together with an officer’s large size example to the Northumberland Militia Artillery, very good condition (11) £200-£300
Volunteer Engineer Tunic Buttons. A card display of nineteen large size examples, officers, 1st & 2nd Lanark, Tyneside Division Volunteers Sub Marine Miners Royal Engineers, Submarine Miners, 1st City of London gilt & silver plate (QVC) & gilt (KC). Other ranks, East London (2), First Cheshire, 1st Durham, 1st Newcastle, 1st City of London (KC), Leeds, Clyde Submarine Miners (brass), a ‘general’ ‘VR’ pattern (brass), Submarine Tees Division, Volunteer Sub Marine Miners (VR),...
Volunteer Infantry, Associations, and Fencibles Buttons c.1794-1814. A card display of thirty-one good quality examples including St. Helens Volunteers, West Halifax, 1st & 2nd Royal Edinburgh, St. George’s Volunteers, a very rare Forfar Volunteers, Arbroath Company gilt example, Edinburgh Independent Pikemen, Portchester Volunteers (excavated), Kelso Volunteers and Northern Fencibles (both excavated), Liverpool Independent Volunteers, Fraser Fencibles, SLA & CLA, Loughside Volunteers,...
British Militia Regiments Early Period Buttons. A card display of sixteen good quality items variable sizes, fine quality examples to Argyllshire, 1st Tower Hamlets, 2nd Shropshire (1st Supplementary) 1st West York (gilt and silver plate), Royal Air, East York, King’s Own Stafford, Surrey, Northumberland, Pembroke, South Hants, a later large pewter to either Galway or Galloway Militia, the Pembroke, South Hants and Galway have poor replacement shanks, otherwise very good condition (16) ...
Local Militia Buttons 1808-16. A card display of seventeen fine quality examples including, Aberdeenshire (R1), Glamorgan, Eastern Regiment Royal Perth, 2nd Argyll, Royal Eastern Montgomery, East Stafford, Wirksworth, Northampton (R100), Morley, West Monmouth (2 large 1 small) pewter, 3rd West Norfolk, &c., all shanks present, generally very good condition (17) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £1,200
English, Welsh, and Scottish Militia Officers Tunic Buttons. A card display of fifty-six fine quality examples 1855-81 only two of which are small, including a rare gilt to the South Gloucester, plated issues Bucks, Berks, Cheshire, Dorset, Glamorgan, 5th Surrey (two types), East Norfolk, West Norfolk (types), Royal Monmouthshire, 1st & 2nd Royal Lanark, Royal Aberdeen, Inverness-shire, 4th West York (two types) 5th & 6th West York &c., very good overall condition (56) £400-£500
Hammer Price: £480
English, Welsh, and Scottish Militia Buttons c.1830-55. A card display of thirty-five good quality examples five of which are small size. Including Royal Bucks, Royal Cheshire, South Devon, East Norfolk, 27th Northumberland (pewter), 1st Somerset silver plated and pewter, 54th Shropshire (pewter), Tower Hamlets, 1st West Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, 31st Monmouth (pewter), 1st Royal Lanark, Edinburgh, 2nd Royal Lanark (poorly repaired), Renfrew, &c., some plating loss to the high points on a...
Hammer Price: £380
English, Welsh, and Scottish Other Ranks Militia Buttons 1855-81. Two card displays containing eighty-six large size different examples, mainly white metal, some are tinned pewter (open back) and black composition for the Rifle regiments, not all regiments are represented but rarities include Royal Ayrshire Rifles, South Durham Fusiliers, Royal Perthshire Rifles, Royal Radnor Rifles, Rutland Militia and 3rd Staffordshire. The Royal 2nd Lancashire example is a coatee button, generally very...
Hammer Price: £950
English, Welsh, and Scottish Rifle Volunteer Buttons c.1860-1908. Two card displays containing one hundred and ten examples only four of which are small size, all shanks intact, officer’s and other ranks’, very little duplication, scarcer types include 8th & 3rd Northants, both large, 4th Northants, small, 33rd Middlesex large mounted, Chester, black metal, four variable Hampshire, 78th, 81st Lancs, Liverpool Press Guard, 6th & 19th Lanark, 2nd Lincs, gilt, 7th Lincs; includes also two...
Hammer Price: £1,100
Irish Militia Buttons c.1800-55. A card display of thirty examples including five small size. Scarce examples include gilt North Cork and 107 Kerry, silver plated, an early Londonderry, Prince William Henry’s Tipperary or Munster, Prince of Wales’s Longford, mostly officers, two with poorly replaced shanks otherwise generally very good condition (30) £300-£400
Irish Militia Officers Buttons 1855-81. A card display of twenty fine quality silver plated examples, three small size, Royal Meath, Armagh Regiment, Queen’s Own Royal City of Dublin, North Tipperary, Wexford (2), Royal South Down, North Mayo, Londonderry &c., all shanks present, slight plating loss to the high points on a few, otherwise good overall condition (20) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £800
Irish Militia Buttons c.1855-81, Other Ranks, Rifle and Infantry Regiments. A card display of thirty-four large size examples, in black composition, Carlow, North Cork, Royal North Down, King’s County, South Mayo, Kildare, Louth, Royal Queen’s County (both patterns), Royal Longford, Wicklow, Westmeath, Queen’s Rifles (possibly Antrim); a pewter Armagh Regiment, white metals, Kelkenny & Kilkenny, 120th North Mayo, Donegal Wexford, Royal Tyrone, Queen’s Own Royal Regiment (Dublin),...
Hammer Price: £1,600
Channel Island Militia Buttons. A card display of twelve good quality examples, 1st or North West Jersey, 3rd Royal Jersey, 2nd Royal Jersey, Royal Jersey, Royal Guernsey, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (2), 5th Royal Jersey (the 3rd and one of the 4th are pewter), all shanks present, good overall condition (12) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £420
Volunteer and Territorial Force Battalions Tunic Buttons. A card display of thirty examples large and small, officers and other ranks including 3rd VB Devons, 3rd VB Glosters 1st VB Leicesters (1881-1903 & 1903-08) 5th I of W VB Hants, Uppingham School and Rossall School Cadets &c., all shanks present, generally very good condition (30) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £120
The Honourable East India Company, Civilian, Marine and Colleges, Royal Marines, Irish Maritime, Royal Naval Hospital, Pilots, Lewes Naval Prison, Coast Guard, Trinity House, Training Ships and Railway Maritime Buttons. Two card displays containing fifty-seven good quality examples. H.E.I.C. items from c.1790-1850, only one Marines button prior to 1820, the Great Western Railway Maritime with a poorly repaired shank otherwise all present, generally good overall condition (57) £300-£400
Indian Army Coatee and Tunic Buttons c.1824-1901. A card display of seventy-six examples, large and small a good number of pre 1857 patterns. Only five are other ranks patterns, all shanks present, good to very good overall condition (76) £500-£700
Hammer Price: £1,500
Nizam of Hyderabad’s Army Tunic Buttons. A card display of eight examples, officers’, Hyderabad Contingent large & small gilt (QVC), H H The Nizam’s Own Mounted Volunteers, large silver plate; Other ranks all brass, 1st 4th 5th 6th Infantry & Depot H H N, very good condition (8) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £80
Crimean War British Foreign Corps Tunic Buttons. Three officers good quality large size gilt examples, comprising Turkish Contingent, British Swiss Legion, and British Italian Legion, shanks present, very good condition (3) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £95
Colonial Buttons. A card display of twenty-one good quality scarce to rare examples, South Australia Militia, IVth Consolidated Regiment of Canadian Militia, Jamaica Militia (2), British Militia (G.IV.R.) Canada (2), Milice Canadienne (G.IV.R.), 1st St. George’s Regiment (Jamaica), St. Helena Regiment (2 officers & one other ranks), Tobago Militia, Rangoon Volunteer Rifles, Kelentan Volunteer Rifles 1914 (Malaysia), Ceylon Mounted Rifles, 1st & 3rd West India Regiments, Malta Fencibles...
Mess Waiters Buttons. Two card displays containing eighty-one examples pre and post 1881, only seven of small size, two cavalry (11th Light Dragoons and 18th Hussars) the remainder Line battalions and the odd Militia battalion, all shanks present, a few with plating or gilt losses otherwise good overall condition (81) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £700
Royal Livery and Royal Household Buttons. Two card displays with a wide variety of very fine and rare examples, dating from George, Prince of Wales when Regent, other Royal Dukes of the early 19th century through to c.1940, some duplication, generally very good condition (59) £300-£400
Livery Buttons of the British Peerage. Three card displays of very fine examples with all ranks of the peerage represented, 89 large 11 small, all shanks appear to be present, good overall condition (100) £200-£300
Golden Age Civilian Buttons c.1830-40. Two card displays of exceptionally fine quality examples, practically all the same size 19mm, mounted designs included, all with original shanks, generally very good condition (95) £200-£300
Civilian Buttons. A card display of fifty examples c.1830-1902, a wide variety Insurance, Assurance, Waterworks, Clubs, Masonic, Constable of the Tower of London (2), Imperial German Navy &c., all shanks present, generally good overall condition (50) £100-£140
Irish Civilian Buttons. A card display of fourteen interesting examples, three concerning the visit of G.IV.R in 1821, 1782 Club (2), ‘God Save the Queen Repeal of the Union’ two variable, ’48 Thomas Davis Association’, Limerick Corporation and similar for Enniskillen, Hillsborough Fort, &c. all shanks present, generally good overall condition (14) £100-£140
Hammer Price: £200
Yacht Club and Maritime Marine Buttons. A card display of very fine examples, some of the former mid-nineteenth century, all shanks intact, five only are small size, very little duplication, generally very good condition (48) £160-£200
Late 18th and early 19th Century Sporting Buttons. A HM silver ‘Pretender’ 29mm, flat engraved with a standing horse, the reverse struck with the Lion passant and ‘TI’ maker’s mark, original silver shank, a HM silver ‘Pompy’ 25mm flat engraved with a running hound, the reverse struck with the maker’s mark only ‘IS’, original shank, ‘Four Horse Club’ 32mm flat in unmarked silver coloured metal, the obverse with details in low relief, the rising sun, coach and four,...
Hammer Price: £220
Hunt Buttons. Two card displays containing one hundred and thirty examples, the vast majority fox hunts but a few harriers included, very little duplication, two lacking shanks otherwise good overall condition (130) £400-£500
Hammer Price: £1,300
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