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Old 12-06-21, 03:50 PM
Jack-K Jack-K is offline
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Hello there, I’m a newcomer to this site and this is my first post. I’m hoping you can help me she’s some light on my research into a button I found in the garden.

So far I’ve ascertained that it’s a Royal artillery button and the backmarks seem to suggest it was made by Hobson & Sons in Lexington Street London. They are very hard to read, but what makes it harder is the fact that they seem to have been printed on top of the other words. A manufacturing fault?

It looks to be a 25mm two piece convex brass button. The part of the backmarks with the makers stamp has been overlaid with a repetition of the word London.

How common are misprinted button backmarks?
Does anyone know more about what branch of Royal Artillery it relates to (front of button depicts single cannon with spoked wheel, crown above cannon and tamping stick behind cannon.
As it’s a Lexington made button that dates it post 1880, but can anyone narrow it down further than that?
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Old 13-06-21, 03:46 PM
Artynut Artynut is offline
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Jack-K, it sounds like a fairly common R.A. Button. If you include good close-up photo’s of anything you are inquiring about, you will get a quicker response and probably a correct answer. Quite often, parts of items that are buried will loose some clarity and sometimes it’s just plain poor quality production. I presume it has the commonly named “Victoria” crown, is it Brass or is it very dirty or ground chemical discoloured “White Metal”. “A picture speaks a thousand words!”
Regards, D.J.
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