Markus,
many thanks for your comprehensive answer to my query.
I am still perplexed, as never having been a quarter-master, I have no idea how many buttons a battalion would keep in stock on a foreign posting. I imagine that production runs must have been relatively expensive for small orders due to the cost of producing a die, and that large orders for Guardsmens' buttons would have been few and far between.
There certainly seems to have been a case for getting Germany's economy up and running. Probably much cheaper than British made badges and buttons from a regular British contractor too.
Simon.
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