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Originally Posted by GTB
I don't want to pour cold water but I believe this button is of later manufacture. The presence of PoW plumes hark to c 1860. Furthermore the Crown is Victorian, not Georgian. However, be glad to be proven wrong
GTB
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Hello GTB
There is no doubt that Charles Jennens used the PoW plumes well before 1860, even though there are references in certain books to Jennens using the PoW plumes from 1860 on but these are wrong. There is plenty of evidence to show that Charles Jennens (as opposed to Jennens & Co) used the PoW plumes as part of their backmark in the 1830s and earlier.
There was a very good article in "Button Lines" proving this point some years ago with plenty of hard evidence (ie references to buttons and backmarks) to support this.
As for the crown, I for one sometimes find it hard to tell the difference!
Roger