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Old 24-08-17, 10:41 AM
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Default Multiple button sweetheart brooches

A sudden thought has struck me which may be common knowledge but here goes anyway.

Sweetheart brooches made from more than one button may have been worn to denote the number of sons or family members at the front?

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Old 24-08-17, 11:32 AM
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Or just make a wider and more atractive brooch?

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Old 24-08-17, 12:38 PM
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Hello Rob

I have seen these multiple button sweetheart brooches before but never given them much thought.

I can see where Thomas is coming from but I'm not sure that adding two or three GS buttons together makes for a more interesting brooch. Wider, yes but there must have been many other ways of getting a more attractive/interesting brooch than putting two/three GS buttons together!

You may well be right, there may be some significance to these multiple button brooches.

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They are not sweetheart broaches but tie pins. Far more utilitarian.
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Old 24-08-17, 02:59 PM
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They are not sweetheart broaches but tie pins. Far more utilitarian.
Hi Alan

I think its "brooch", not "broach"

And we need to find some period pictures in to clarify common usage.

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I was reading Pamela Caunt's book on sweetheart brooches "Military Sweethearts" today and bar brooches are definitely considered to be sweethearts, I think its a coincidence that tie pins are a similar shape.

And looking at Chipper's excellent album the idea of multiple buttons possibly representing family members is very similar to this Australian badge.

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=146810

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