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Description: | Copper alloy button. Hollow composite uniform button with a separate drawn wire loop threaded through its slotted back plate, kindly identified by the finder as likely to be from the uniform of a Victorian militia unit. The front bears the crowned Royal Arms flanked by lion and unicorn. The back has stamped details around its rim: FIRMIN SN[---]; the manufacturers - Firmin of the Strand, London - were a long-established company specialising in uniform buttons. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1880.Diameter: 17.0mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 4mm, Weight: 2.04gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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