Can anyone date this HMS Conway button?
 

I cant seem to nail a date down to this. Im hoping someone could help solve this little mystery for me :)

I think it might be gold gilt too. As this is how it came out of the ground. Normally, such buttons would look brown (much like the back of the button)

There is no text on the back of the button

Hello Colinloves, welcome to the Forum. Your account is active and open for posts.

Colinloves - I am assuming you know this story already:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Conway_(school_ship)
https://menaibridges.co.uk/history/l...rea/hms-conwy/
http://hmsconway.org/
The information only gives a broad potential timeline unfortunately. Those who have crossed the Menai straits will know the 'swellies' are very powerful at certain states of the tide. They have to be treated with great respect. Conger eels in adjacent bridge structure are monsters! Not a place where you would want a vessel to run into difficulty.
It will be interesting to see if a button expert can assist.
Mike

An earlier thread.

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ghlight=conway

I have updated this thread.

Conway buttons fit in the "superior / best / special quality" category, i.e. as cheap as possible.
Cheap buttons are hard to date.

It seems the front image was standard, so I guess the clue to dating will be the back design.
I did E-mail Maritime Archives Liverpoolmuseums and was rather shocked they had no records of the button.

As Ive fount a sweetheart brooch from the boar war (which I will post to the site soon, for peoples enjoyment) and a sweetheart badge after WW1, Im guessing its around that time. But I'm the kind of person who really likes the date nailed down to a year or a few. Rather than a few decades. :)

Thanks for the input so far, fellow members.

Oh BTW, it was fount in North London, if that interests people