Live Auction 18367Gloria: Property from the late Dowager Countess Bathurst
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGIAN SILVER FIELD BUTTONS
Lot 167

A SET OF TWELVE GEORGIAN SILVER FIELD BUTTONS

Closed22 July 2020

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GBP 1,500

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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,

Specialist note

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.