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[jss1216]

Anyone recognize this button?

 

[Deftone]

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Hun...224048?hash=item3af669adb0:g:MVkAAOSwQiBZ2lBr

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Deftone, I gave you a Like, but I must also give you a public acknowledgement for that OUTSTANDING identification effort.

I must also mention, the Ebay seller is wrong (as is so often the case)... it is not a Livery button. It is a Sporting (or Sporting Gentleman's) button. Livery buttons were/are worn on the uniform of household servants (butler, doorman, coachmen, etc) of Nobility/Aristocracy or merely wealthy families, and the buttons show the Family Crest or Coat-Of-Arms.

I should also mention, many Livery buttons do show an animal's head... but almost all Livery buttons also show a Torse, which is a wreath with six twists, viewed on edge and laying horizontally. You can see the Torse laying horizontally below animal's head on the (British) aristocracy Rowley family Livery button, below.

A Nobility family's Livery buttons tend to include a version of Coronet which denotes the noble's rank (duke, or baron, etc.) Note, a coronet is shaped differently than a Royal crown.

 

[Deftone]

Thanks for the heads up TCG!

 

[creskol]

Your button is listed in The Big Book of Buttons by Hughes & Lester on page 284, plate 10, button no. 31 referred to as Stag Head, and falls in the category of Animal Buttons.