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Description: | Post medieval or Modern copper alloy livery button. The button is circular with a slightly convex front and concave back. In the centre of the back is a separate copper alloy loop. There is part of a makers name on the back, now unclear. The front is tinned with a an elaborately shaped and garnished shield. In general it is lozenge shaped and therefore maybe the arms of an unmarried women or widow. The arms are impaled and are: Argent (or Or) a chevron sable between three boars heads couped impaling sable a chevron argent (or Or) between three cherubs. It is 25.8mm in diameter, 3.5mm thick, 9.0mm with the loop and weighs 6.35 grams.The arms may be those of Elphinstone impaling those of Chaloner but they are both popular designs used by several families and branches of families with slight variation in tincture not clear on a tinned surface. It is likely to be later 18th or 19th cnetury in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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