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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy livery button, circular in plan and slightly domed in profile, with a buck 'tripant proper' to the left of a falcon with long tail feathers, both standing on a 'torse' or twisted roll of fabric laid at the base of the crest. The buck may be the arms of the Glanvilles, originally of St Germans, but at this time based in Treswithian Downs, Camborne, to the north of the findspot. The falcon may be the arms of the Hawkey family of St Winnow and Launcells or the Kemp family of Veryan, Blisland and Gerrans. This combination may represent a union or marriage of the two families. The base of the attachment loop remains and the backmark around it reads 'FIRMIN & SONS 153 STRAND LONDON' which dates from c.1875-1876.Pascoe (1979) notes the crest of the Glanvilles of Catchfrench, St Germans, is a 'buck statant proper' on page 43 and the crest of the Hawkey family as 'three falcons close' on page 48 and the Kemp family crest as 'a falcon close' on page 57.
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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