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Image 1 Artillery button (military gallery) H(ammond) T(urner) & B(ates) Manchester |
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Image 2 Rampant goat (livery gallery) Hammond Turner & Sons |
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Image 3 Royal Northern Yacht Club (uniform gallery) Hammond Turner & Sons with crown |
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Image 4 Gold circles (dandy gallery) Hammond Turner & Dickinson |
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Image 5 Hammond Turner & Sons plus! Civil war dug very poor specimen (military gallery) UPDATE! This back mark is interesting because there is another maker’s name within the outer circle: it is impossible to read this one but I have since bought another button (Image 14, below) which tells more of the story, although there is still an element of mystery! I appealed for information about what it might say under all that verdigris… and I am very grateful to ‘Rider’ who suggested that it refers to the gilding and says ‘Extra Super Fine’. |
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Image 6 C & J Weldon London (not in a gallery, yet…) This button is included because there was a business relationship and a friendship between Hammond Turner and Weldon in the mid-1800s: Charles Weldon was an administrator of William Hammond Turner’s will. There is another Weldon backmark below. |
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Image 7 Lion Works, Birmingham (not in a gallery yet…) This was the trading name of Hammond Turner in the early 20th century. |
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Image 8 Reverse of basket-weave button (dandy and dress gallery) H T & Sons Best Qualy Plated (sic) |
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Image 9 C&J Weldon London (not in a gallery) This front is very similar to a Hammond Turner front and is a uniform button for the Royal Artillery. |
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Image 10 Features a fishing basket (sporting gallery) Hammond Turner and Sons with crown |
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Image 11 Features an animal which may be a horse, a deer or even, as the seller suggested, a unicorn (sporting gallery) Hammond Turner & Sons Extra Quality |
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Image 12 Reverse of marbled glass waistcoat button, (dandy and dress gallery) H T & Sons Birmm (sic) |
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Image 13 Weldon (not in gallery) C&J Weldon, 130 Cheapside, London. There was a business connection between Weldon and Hammond Turner |
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Image 14 Hammond Turner and Sons for John Bowen and Co. This is another version of the heavily verdigris-encrusted button above. It was made by Hammond Turner and Sons for John Bowen and Co. For more information about John Bowen, see Dandy Gallery 1 |
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Image 15 Hammond Turners & Bate, Manchester This button can be dated fairly accurately as HT&B were trading for a short time: see the History section for more information Button 185, image [to follow], Uniform gallery |
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Image 16 Pitt & Co, 31 Maddox Street, London W Included simply because I bought the button in error and found the quality of the front to be in startling contrast to that produced by HT etc! |