✅ SOLVED Anglo Boer War Button? (1881 - 1902 Britain & South Africa)

[VonnPastTense]

Hi all

Found this button metal detecting.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

According to the best website I know of for identifying "Historical British" Army buttons, your button showing a British Royal crown above a hunting-horn is "a generic pattern of button worn by some Rifle Volunteer units from their formation in 1859." One shown in a photo at that website is listed as a "Rifle Brigade Lead Mount" button.
Go here, and scroll about halfway down the page of photos, looking on the right side:
Militarynamedregs

Or, you can try searching through the 37 pages of British Military buttons at the ukdfd website (United Kingdon Detector Finds Database):
UK Finds Database - - - UKDFD

I should mention, there is a similar-looking button with the same crown-above-horn emblem but it's surrounded by a wreath.... however, your button has no wreath, so it's not a King's Royal Rifle Corps button.

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Nice looking button, I'd be pretty happy to find that!