Military Button Collection
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- Date
- 1914 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0158 a-e
- Description
- A collection of nine assorted military buttons, some forming partial sets. (a) 2 grey metal, 1.2 x 2.3, large, relief crown filling slightly domed button with ring shank and concave back. (b) 2 brass, 1.0 x 2.1 crown at centre of pebbled surface with smooth. (c) 2 plain brass, 1.0 x 2.1, smooth, …
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- Title
- Military Button Collection
- Date
- 1914 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Description
- A collection of nine assorted military buttons, some forming partial sets. (a) 2 grey metal, 1.2 x 2.3, large, relief crown filling slightly domed button with ring shank and concave back. (b) 2 brass, 1.0 x 2.1 crown at centre of pebbled surface with smooth. (c) 2 plain brass, 1.0 x 2.1, smooth, slightly domed, ring shank in concave back, one filled with matted woolen threads. (d) 1 silver coloured, 1.0 x 2.6, ornate monogram across, "GVIR", George V Imperator Rex. Hollow with flat brass back and ring shank. (e) 1 brass, 1.1 x 2.6, slightly domed, with relief cross at centre surrounded by circular band, "Honi soit qui mal y pense", and eight points of star around circumference . Hollow, with flat back and shank held through two holes at middle.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0158 a-e
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