Button help

[Lygore]

Anyone able to ID this? I'd like to know any info you can offer on it. Maker, value, rarity, etc. tried searching online and only found this

http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=4968&cat=260

Very vague...








I already put it in the what is it forum but I thought ya'll might be able to ID it. :-)

 

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[smokeythecat]

Don't know but I did see 1 reference with a fox on the face. Black Foxe Military Institute in Los Angeles. This fox is different, yours may be a civiliar blazer button.

 

[TRice]

I know in the US, particularly VA, in the early 1800's buttons like these were worn on fox hunters coats. The type where groups would get together and dress alike and chase foxes with their hounds and horses. I don't recognize the backmark, but it does look old.

 

[Lygore]

The thing I don't understand is that I found this in Hawaii. There have never been foxes here.... Maybe a mongoose hunt? Lol :-D

 

[TRice]

Plenty of English Fox hunters may have graced the HI shores? Maybe Bly traded them to the HI king for bread fruit plants. I just looked at two similar buttons in a Civil War Relic book and they were called sporting buttons. What does the backmark say?

 

[Lygore]

It says "* Sporting * Designs" that's all. It is possible about the English trading. I do know king Kamehameha really liked everything having to do with the English.