Lesley's button collection - sporting gallery #4
These are some more of the sporting buttons in Lesley's collection.

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Image 1 An amazing find! Dug up by Stan Purcell while he was metal detecting in the Creswick Regional Park in Victoria, Australia. Having found this website, Stan generously donated his find to my collection: it is a two-piece button which has been a bit flattened but it shows a fox, apparently lying down. Made by Hammond Turner & Sons, between roughly 1820 and 1850, in Birmingham, England. Did a gentleman emigrating to Australia take a coat with this button on it with him? Did the button continue to be used long after it was made?

Image 2 The reverse of Stan's find Amazingly, there is still some thread on the shank of this button. How did it come to be in Australia? Did someone's trousers fall down when they lost it?! It is a very fine sporting button, probably part of a set, and I don't have any others made in a similar pattern. Stan found it near where the Cotty Creek and the Sawpit Creek meet the Slaty Creek.

Image 3 Fox and bird A beautiful example of very finely-detailed work, with a broken shank. A two-piece button: backmark says Hammond Turner & Sons Extra Quality with a crown top centre.

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