Two unidentified buttons from hanoverian fields

[aku]

Hello everyone!

A friend and I are metal detecting the fields of a small village right between Bremen and Hanover. We've found a number of buttons of Napoleons Grande Armée and a lot of stuff from german troops that dates between ca. 1850 to WW2. Now we think that we may have found our first two british buttons from the early 1800s, but that's just a guess. The british military was here in 1945 as well.

I've attached two pictures. I know the quality of the images is not great, sorry for that.

The gilded one looks like the first button on this website. (Ref No: 891). There's also a related piece here. But the backmark (Best Quality) and the size (21 mm) is different. And it looks so modern to me.

The writing on the second one is nearly completly gone. It's cleaned as far as possible.

Any help is highly appreciated! Excuse my bad english. :-)

[54Bty]

Your first button;

Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1802-1830.
There are variations in the text.

Marc

[aku]

Hello Marc,

thank you for your response. Do you know to which part of the Uniform this button was stitched? Just to the front, to open and close a jacket or something, at the shoulders or somewhere else? I was just wondering because of the different sizes of smiliar button i've found around the internet. Mine is round about 21 mm in size.

Thanks!

[54Bty]

Known recorded sizes that I know of are: 22mm, 21mm, 17mm, 16mm, & 14mm.

Marc

[aku]

Thanks a lot!

Any idea about the second button? The strap and the crown looks british to me. The writing says "REG[...]" on the left and something that looks like "[...]OI[...] or "[...]OL[...] on the right. Maybe any idea for a good website to do some more research myself?