unknown button with a buck's head, mess dress?

[btns]

Is this tiny button with a buck's head (gilt on gilt 15 mm) a mess dress button?
If so, to what regiment?
Its backmark is "Jennens, London" and its shank is flattened on the inside.

[Cribyn]

Hello btns

It is not a pattern of mess dress button that I recognise.

If it is military it could be for the Gordon Highlanders as they used a similar buck's or stag's head on their mess waiter's buttons - see the photo which is, I believe, a Gordon Highlanders mess waiter's button. Obviously not the same, it is possible that at some period just the stag's head was used on the much smaller mess dress buttons. That said there is a well-known very different pattern of mess dress button for the Gordon Highlanders.

The other possibility is that it is a general pattern sporting button or even a specific stag hunt button.

Roger

[btns]

Roger,
Thank you very much for your reply.
best regards,

[leigh kitchen]

Is not the caboshed stags head more like the Seaforth's badge than that of the Gordon's ( not that I'm familiar with either regiments mess dress buttons).
Then again the Seaforths badge was worn by the Canadian Pictou Highlanders & an Australian regiment & perhaps others.

[Cribyn]

Yes indeed, the Seaforths could be another, possibly even better, contender. As could any of the 'colonial' regiments that were linked to either of these regiments.

Roger