Another G&W Boggett button

[streakert]

Another G&W Boggett button

Found another boar's Head button today along with a smooth large copper coin.

 

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[streakert]

Corn fields

 

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Sharp looking but I nicked it and its copper

 

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Smoothy

 

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G&W Boggett St Martin's lane LONDON

 

[pepperj]

Very cool find ,really liking the button.

 

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Both buttons together they have slightly different heads

 

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This is how it appears when the back rings are the same direction

 

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Last pic sorry I flubbed this post with not inserting all the pic's at once

 

[Hot diggity]

Great buttons! Very nice. Thanks.

 

[Evolution]

Seeing the word button with the capital letters G and W in the post title got me excited. You're in a good spot if you're turning up coppers of any kind... whether they be smooth or not. Keep hunting that area. Nice finds.

 

[CRUSADER]

Both buttons together they have slightly different heads

As Livery Buttons, they are very different, ie for different Families, circa 1830s. Although if they didn't come off some servants coats they may have just been salvaged & used together.

 

[streakert]

As Livery Buttons, they are very different, ie for different Families, circa 1830s. Although if they didn't come off some servants coats they may have just been salvaged & used together.

Thank you Crusader
I was hoping someone from your neck of the wood could lend some insight into these types of buttons they are really cool, I found the first one 20 feet from the Manor house built 1832 and the other about 75 yards away in what was the old apple orchard.

 

[DownNDirty]

Cool buttons-nice finds

 

[sutphin]

HEY KERT THAT IS ONE AWESOME BUTTON FIND . DANG LIKE THE PIC OF THE ORNREY AWS BOAR HEAD . SWEET AND NEEET ...

 

[streakert]

OK So through my research these livery buttons belonged to Richard Canton a Scotsman and cotton merchant whom married the daughter of Charles Carroll III, Mary "polly"

 

[CRUSADER]

OK So through my research these livery buttons belonged to Richard Canton a Scotsman and cotton merchant whom married the daughter of Charles Carroll III, Mary "polly"

Probably a self made man, rather than a 'landed' individual. Many of the up & coming would choose a 'generic' emblem like the Boars Head to make themselves out to be from a 'richer' bloodline than they were. When these Livery Buttons were in use they were on coachmen & other servants coats to connect them to that family. It is possible that these 2 buttons are connected to the same family because the strict codes that went with armorial (Coats of Arms) emblems were ignored by those that never had them in their family line.

PS. my first comment assumed that they were 'landed' gents.

 

[streakert]

Probably a self made man, rather than a 'landed' individual. Many of the up & coming would choose a 'generic' emblem like the Boars Head to make themselves out to be from a 'richer' bloodline than they were. When these Livery Buttons were in use they were on coachmen & other servants coats to connect them to that family. It is possible that these 2 buttons are connected to the same family because the strict codes that went with armorial (Coats of Arms) emblems were ignored by those that never had them in their family line.

PS. my first comment assumed that they were 'landed' gents.

The manor House was built for Richard daughter Emily would it be that the Father had one and the daughter had the other. That would be interesting. I still have alot of ground to cover.