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Description: | Silver-plated copper alloy livery button with the arms of a demi lion rampant emerging above a coronet and holding a star or mullet in the dexter or right paw. The maker's name is the backmark: FIRMIN & SONS, 153 STRAND LONDON, which dates the button from c.1852-1875.The only local Cornish family with a similar coat of arms depicting a lion rampant surrounded by seven stars is the Saltren family of Treludick, in Egloskerry, who later settled at Petticombe Manor near Monkleigh in Devon.Fairbairn (1986) illustrates the same crest in Plate 89, No.10 which is associated with many family names, none of which are Cornish, but the only link that the recorder can find to a local landed gentry family at this time is to the Lamb family of Fowey and Lostwithiel, listed in the local Kelly's Directories for the time.
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