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Description: | Cast gilt copper alloy livery button with an integral circular attachment loop of Hartley / Harris family of Rosewarne depicting a Martlet with crosslet fitchee in its beak, above a torse. The back mark is corroded and worn but it appears to be DOUGHTY & CO. LONDON, like the smaller button below. Benjamin Doughty was manufacturing livery buttons at 103 St Martins Lane, London from about 1829 and is also referred to in 1856.The button may be related to the Hartley family of the Rosewarne Estate, near Camborne, which is half a mile away. The family also possessed estates around Roseworthy and in Gwinear parish. The findspot is approximately half way between the two localities. Mary Harris of Rosewarne married Winchcombe Henry Hartley of Bucklebury, Berkshire in 1823 so the button would date from some time during their son William Henry Harris Hartley's lifetime (1823-1894). He died in 1894 and was buried in the Rosewarne vault, now under the floor of Camborne church hall in Camborne churchyard.Fairbairn (1905) mentions a similar crest, "martlet sa. holding in its beak a cross crosslet fitchee or." (meaning martlet 'sable' or black with a gold crosslet) for Sir Charles Augustus Hartley of 26 Pall Mall, London and Captain James Hartley of Ashbrooke, Bournemouth in Volume I on page 262.The finder has also found a reference to the Hartley family crest:http://www.myfamilysilver.com/crestfinder-search/hartley-family-crestThis button was found about a field away from a similar but larger livery button (CORN-7CA1F4) with the same motto / crest and attributed to the same family.
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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