✅ SOLVED Another neat livery button to identify if possible!

[creskol]

Wild looking creature! Does anybody recognize the backmark? Date?

Thanks!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your Livery button shows a dragon's head, I think. Edit-note: Cancel that, because of Fyrffytr1's post, below. The beastie on your button has the "curly" tooth at the front of its upper jaw, as seen on some Boar livery buttons at the Livery Buttons Identified website (link is in the next paragraph below). But the jaw still looks way too long for a Boar to me.

I searched through the two best webpages I know of for identifying Livery buttons, but no success.
You might want to send a photo of it to the folks at those webpages.
https://sites.google.com/site/liverybuttonsidentified/ (Lots of helpful Links there too.)
http://www.bysonbuttons.com/Deb/LiveryArticle/LIVERY Final.pdf

You could try wading through all the (many) pages of Livery buttons at the UK Detector Finds Database (UKDFD):
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objecttype/BUTTON/description/livery

Also, since your Livery button is almost certainly British-made, try the British Button Society.
www.britishbuttonsociety.org

I said "almost certainly British-made" because that's where the majority of Livery buttons were made... and I cannot read your button's backmark in the photo you posted.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I think it's a Boars head but my old eyes can't make out the backmark. I looked at a few websites but couldn't find a match for it.

 

[CRUSADER]

I think it's a Boars head but my old eyes can't make out the backmark. I looked at a few websites but couldn't find a match for it.

It is a Wild Boars Head.

 

[CRUSADER]

https://sites.google.com/site/liverybuttonsidentified/home/boar

 

[CRUSADER]

Most Livery Buttons are circa mid-19th C.

 

[creskol]

Thanks everybody. Silly me .. I was working on the assumption that the braid was always at the bottom of the button. I nevr once thought about rotating it, but that sure makes a more vivid image. The backmark, in part, says ....Ann Redditch, Superfine Quality

 

[fyrffytr1]

I think Redditch is the town in England where it was made. And, I think there is a W between the s and ann. But, I can't find any maker by the name of Swann.

 

[sutphin]

WILD LOOKING FIND.DANG NEET.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thinking about it your button may have been made elsewhere for a tailor or seamstress in Redditch. At one point in the nineteenth century 90% of the worlds needles were made in Redditch and the surrounding area. It stands to reason that there could have been tailors and seamstresses in the same area. And, just maybe one of them was named Swann.