Navy Button??

[CRUSADER]

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,176655.msg1287667.html#msg1287667

What is the button I found today with the Bird on it? No backmark left.

 

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[La Beep]

Re: Navy Button

Still looking however I did find this:

The new uniform regulations of 1825 included the innovation that warrant officers were to have specific insignia on their buttons and embroidered on their collars. The device for a surgeon featured a snake twined around an anchor, which was that of the old Sick and Hurt Office. Unlike the uniform, the button on the hat did not have specific insignia, but featured the fouled anchor on lined ground.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=UNI0137

 

[La Beep]

Re: Navy Button

Another cool site:

http://foundintheground.com/photos/milbut/default.aspx

Added it has you button on the right listed. page 3, row 3, last column

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Navy Button

Another cool site:

http://foundintheground.com/photos/milbut/default.aspx

Added it has you button on the right listed. page 3, row 3, last column

Interesting it doesn't have the one we are looking for!

 

[La Beep]

Re: Navy Button

Another cool site:

http://foundintheground.com/photos/milbut/default.aspx

Added it has you button on the right listed. page 3, row 3, last column

Interesting it doesn't have the one we are looking for!

Oops my other right, it has the one on the left. Sorry.

 

[tinpan]

British Royal Navy Signall Corp (pigeons in war)

http://www.wingswest.net/pigeons/Warpigeons/warpigeons.html


tinpan this might help

 

[CRUSADER]

British Royal Navy Signall Corp (pigeons in war)

http://www.wingswest.net/pigeons/Warpigeons/warpigeon.html


tinpan this might help

It might do if the link worked

 

[CRUSADER]

I am now 99% sure its a Livery Button. As it was a 2 piece construction it was made in Victoria's reign however the crown is not of Victoria. It does though have a Royal connection, as Crown's on Livery buttons indicate. Its known as a Boron's Coronet:
See similar:
http://ourpasthistory.com/Gallery/livery_crest/button20

So I can guess that this Boron had a seafairing background & the bird was part of his coat of arms, possible gained in battle by his distant family.

The give away, other than the crown was the scrolling base that the anchor & Bird sat on.