Nice Military silver plated button.

[oldsoapy]

Rain only allowed me under an hours detecting today, but this button made my day !!

 

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[jewelerguy]

man, that's nice!

 

[CRUSADER]

That will clean up great, nice to have all its plating! I love these period buttons & that one I need.

 

[CRUSADER]

REGIMENTAL MOTTO: "GWELL ANGAU NA CHYWILYDD" (Death Rather Than Dishonour)- adopted for the 41st by Lieut.-Col. Sir Edmund Keynton Williams in 1831. This is now also the motto of the Royal Regiment of Wales.

http://www.fortyfirst.org/writings/chapters12.htm

 

[steelheadwill]

That's a Beauty. Congrats~!!

 

[Iron Patch]

Definitely a day maker for sure. Just post dates our main period of interest for early military relics on this side (roughly 1760s to about 1815) but it's sure way better than a Livery which is what I bet you suspected you had.


Read a little and seems like it's post 1831, but it wouldn't be too many years after that... 1830s/40s the backmark likely dates to.

 

[hammered]

Beautiful button mate, funnily enough I was watching a documentary about the 24th Regiment of Foot earlier this evening and found out about a change in the moto. I thought you might find this report in Hansard interesting:-

WAR OFFICE—THE MOTTO OF THE WELSH REGIMENT.

HC Deb 09 August 1888 vol 330 cc77-8 77

§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil) asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he is aware that no meaning attaches to the words "Gwell augau neu chwilydd," the motto given in the official Army List as that of the Welsh Regiment, there being no such word as "augau" in the Welsh language; whether it is correct that the expression "Gwell angeu neu chwilydd" (Better death or shame), appears on the caps of the men in the regiment, and is a source of annoyance to them as well as their friends; and, whether he will cause to be substituted in both cases the old Welsh motto "Gwell angeu na chywilydd" (Better death than disgrace), the one clearly intended?
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§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle) In April last the officer commanding called attention to an alleged inaccuracy in the motto of the Welsh Regiment, and the matter was referred to a very competent authority for decision. Orders have now been given that the necessary correction shall be made. 78

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[oldsoapy]

Beautiful button mate, funnily enough I was watching a documentary about the 24th Regiment of Foot earlier this evening and found out about a change in the moto. I thought you might find this report in Hansard interesting:-

WAR OFFICE—THE MOTTO OF THE WELSH REGIMENT.

HC Deb 09 August 1888 vol 330 cc77-8 77

§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil) asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he is aware that no meaning attaches to the words "Gwell augau neu chwilydd," the motto given in the official Army List as that of the Welsh Regiment, there being no such word as "augau" in the Welsh language; whether it is correct that the expression "Gwell angeu neu chwilydd" (Better death or shame), appears on the caps of the men in the regiment, and is a source of annoyance to them as well as their friends; and, whether he will cause to be substituted in both cases the old Welsh motto "Gwell angeu na chywilydd" (Better death than disgrace), the one clearly intended?
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§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle) In April last the officer commanding called attention to an alleged inaccuracy in the motto of the Welsh Regiment, and the matter was referred to a very competent authority for decision. Orders have now been given that the necessary correction shall be made. 78

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hammered

Thanks mate, it's a cracking button, and condition is amazing considering it was under the ground for so many years. Hutch.

 

[firemac]

fantastic dod o hyd!

 

[granthansen]

Beautiful find. Congrats!

 

[GaRebel1861]

Nice, very nice!

 

[Michiganne]

Beauty of a button! WTG

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