Boars head button

[JWT70]

Boar's head button

Anybody have any info on this?

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Buttons showing a "game" animal are known to collectors as a Sportsman's buttons. They were very popular on hunting-coats in the 1800s.

Need to see a well-focused closeup photo of the (cleaned) back of your boar's-head Sportsman's button to have any hope of time-dating it. Does it have a backmark?

 

[JWT70]

I'll have to check. It's a two piece button. I found a pic of one on the Web. It's in the big book of buttons on page 276. It didn't have any more info than that though.

 

[kuger]

As CBG stated fairly common in 19th Century sites.It has been told that often times in England Hunting clubs would give out buttons featuring and animal the bearer had taken,like a "score",and he would sew it on his coat?I dont know what truth there is to that?