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Description: | Copper alloy with black paintButton. Cast hollow composite plano-convex discoid button with separate drawn wire loop. The front bears the motif of a Calvary under a scroll with the motto VITAM DIRIGAT, translated as He directs life. The back bears a maker's legend: [---]L[--]ANT & Co. LONDON. This is one of a number of identical buttons reported from northern Lincolnshire. The gentry Arms of a cross calvary gules (red) with this motto were held by Sir Robert Alexander, the eldest son of Sir Alexander Christison, Surgeon-General of the Bengal Army, Baronet of Moray Place in the City of Edinburgh. The title was created in 1871, and became extinct in 1993. Family members were associated with military and imperial service until after the First World War. Suggested date: Modern, 1870-1900.Diameter: 25.9mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 6.0mm, Weight: 6.36gms. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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