A SET OF TWELVE GEORGIAN SILVER FIELD BUTTONS
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGIAN SILVER FIELD BUTTONS

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGIAN SILVER FIELD BUTTONS
Each circular button engraved with a ship and headland beneath the inscription 'Wormshead Hunt 1794 Try', hallmarked London 1794, maker's mark WS, gross weight approximately 44g, fitted case Jenner & Knewstub,

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Lot Essay

The Worms Head Otter Hunt buttons depict a ship and the rock, situated south of Rhossili Bay in the Bristol Channel, from where the now defunct pack got its name. A cased set of “old silver sporting buttons” from the Worms Head Otter Hunt, probably the present lot, were illustrated at an exhibition at Cambridge House, in The Connoisseur, September-December 1903, p. 139.

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