Large livery button bearing family coat of arms, strung with others [1945.6.128 .1 - .27] [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/6/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Large livery button bearing family coat of arms, strung with others [1945.6.128 .1 - .27] [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/6/2005]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England London
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Sherlock and Co.; Field collector William Horace Boscawen Somerset; PRM source William Horace Boscawen Somerset
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1800-1850
Date collected: By 1945
Acquisition information: Donated: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Metal
Dimensions: Diameter: max 24 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.6.128.4
Research and responses: OED online: Livery: 1. a. The dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing (cf. 2) to retainers or servants; hence gen., provision, allowance. b. The food or provisions so dispensed; an allowance or ration of food served out. Now Hist. ... 2. a. A suit of clothes, formerly sometimes a badge or cognizance (e.g. a collar or hood), bestowed by a person upon his retainers or servants and serving as a token by which they may be recognized; in wider sense, a distinctive badge or suit worn by a servant or official, a member of a company, etc.; {dag}formerly, the uniform of a soldier or sailor. In generalized use, the distinctive uniform style of dress worn by a person's servants, etc. (now only men-servants). in livery: wearing a particular livery. out of livery: (of a servant) not dressed in livery; wearing plain clothes. {dag}In early use also, a set of distinctive badges or suits; in first quot. = garments, clothes. [AP 26/09/2006]

Search terms: Clothing, Ornament, Insignia, Button

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