Unidentified Cap Buttons

[Hawthorn]

Have had these for years now having picked them up in a box of mixed Military items and have never been able to positively identify them. Don't think I'll be selling them but would like to know what they are to put them in their proper place in the magpie style collection I have accumulated over the years.

Marked to the reverse Pitt & Co, London.

Many thanks for any suggestions, Simon.

[leigh kitchen]

I was trying to work out if the entwined letters may fit initials for "Kings Overseas Dominion Regiment", "Special Reserve Cavalry" or "King Edward's Horse" (not that I've seen their buttons of that design) but I just can't untangle the letters.

[Hawthorn]

Thanks for the suggestions Leigh, that's my trouble too, I just can't work out what the letters are.

Regards Simon.

[Hoot]

K O R with over-elaborate K and R but I don't know who wore them.

[Hawthorn]

Hoot,

Many thanks, I couldn't work out the letters at all.

Simon.

[Buttonman]

They are officer's mess dress buttons for the King's Own Royal Regiment [Lancaster]. Button number 595 in Buttons of the British Army 1855-1970 by Howard Ripley.

David.

[Hawthorn]

David,

That's brilliant, thanks very much indeed.

Simon.