Three buttons...

[mile-ender]

Three buttons, all from pretty much the same area (which really doesn't say much). The larger of the three I picked up a few weeks ago, the other two were last year or so. Just wondering what you wonderful folk could tell me about 'em.... The first one is backmarked 'Ernest J. Scott Montreal', the second 'Firmins London', and the third '...Wright(?) patent Birmingham'.
Thanks in advance...

 

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[daroofa]

The first button has a George V royal cypher which would date it 1910-1936

 

[CRUSADER]

The first button has a George V royal cypher which would date it 1910-1936

agreed.


The second 'Firmins' backmark doesn't show up on this site but it might be Victorian, & one of the Royal Lancers Regiments??
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/button-makers.html

Last one is Victorian (late) VR - Victoria Regina - Royal Engineer Department

 

[CRUSADER]

Similar:

 

[mile-ender]

Similar:

I like mine better

 

[mile-ender]

The first button has a George V royal cypher which would date it 1910-1936

So, who would have worn it?

 

[mile-ender]

Daroofa, Crusader
Thanks guys

 

[CRUSADER]

OK, worked out the second one - its the Grenadier Guards (during Victoria's reign).
Heres how I got it:
At the bottom is the symbol/capbadge for the Grenadier Guards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadier_Guards
The letters are the Royal Cypher of Queen Victoria - notice the mirror image 'VRR(retro)V(retro):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VR.svg