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Help to identify buttons
Hello all,
I'm not familiar with Canadian insignia. So any help would be appreciated. 1. Button with beaver. Is it ww1 and who wore them? 2. Button without beaver. Is it ww2 and who wore them? 3. Railways Button. Does it have a military association and is it possible to date? Thanks, Tony |
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Hi Tony,
The third button is a general staff button (Canadian National Railways) and dates from 1920 - 1952. Hope that helps. Cheers, Roy.
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Hello Tony
Canadian buttons are not really my area but I do not think buttons 1 and 2 are military. I have one each of these buttons and although I am going from memory at the moment, I do not think they appear in Eric Smylie's book on 'Buttons of the Canadian Militia'. I also have a recollection that these two buttons have been mentioned on the Forum before and again were not considered to be military. Hopefully a Canadian expert will be along to put us all out of our misery! Regards Roger |
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The first two buttons were worn by volunteer para-military groups during the war. These civilian groups had no entitlement to the Army's General Service buttons so used these. There are at least three major types and these are shown in my book on Coloured Field Service Caps.
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-CANADIAN-A...EAAMXQlgtS05l1 Sorry if I seem a bit dumb but how do these relate (or not) to the second button in my post? Tony |
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Servicepub is right, but I think the buttons had been around long before WWII.
The e-bay seller is just another hawker making up a good story and hoping to sell his goods. As far as I know Gaunt's Montreal office was sold to Wm. Scully in the 1930s. |
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As regards the Gaunt office in Montreal, I have quite a few Queen's crown Canadian forces buttons with a 'J R Gaunt & Son Ltd Montreal Made in England' backmark. If Gaunt did indeed sell their Montreal office in the 1930s they continued to use 'Montreal' on backmarks for some years after which is not impossible if they had a large stock of them! Roger |
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Roger,
I was incorrect. In the 1930s the privately owned Canadian Gaunt office was sold by its owner (Mr. Gaunt) to J.R. Gaunt & Son Ltd. The office itself was sold to Wm. Scully in 1987. Here are the announcements: https://www.williamscully.ca/gallery..._1023.jpg.html https://www.williamscully.ca/documen...s_jr_gaunt.pdf |
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Hello btns
Many thanks for posting those two links. There is some interesting information there, especially in the first one. Roger |
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