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Need Help Identifying
Hi, Dug this little beauty today and struggling with identifying it, any idea?
https://imgur.com/a/R2snWcE Thank you |
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Welcome to the Forum UK TreasureHunter. Your account is active and open for posts.
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Hi,
It is a link, not a posted image. After a while the image will disappear and the thread becomes useless. My second remark: if you post items with the intention to sell them off, you need to add a message indicating so. best regards, |
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1700s naval lieutenants button, if you are thinking of selling it I wouldn't bother as it's not in a condition that would appeal to many
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It's become a common error to label those pewter buttons with rose impressions as naval or naval officer. As Dixon Pickup told me The facts are these, in 1748 the Admiralty issued their first Dress Regulations for officers of the RN, included in these were descriptions of the GILT (and always gilt) buttons to be worn by, Officers of Flag Rank, Captains, Commanders and Lieutenants. Greenwich have a near full set of these first patterns.
They are just fancy pattern georgian buttons i find piles of them and in coventry im further from the sea than any other point in england. |
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these are my finds but these are the types commonly sold on auction sites to (boost prices mainly) as naval buttons when in fact they are civilian cufflinks or rose decorated buttons.
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