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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:57, 1 August 2022: 238 × 216 (63 KB): Rosiestep: Uploaded a work by Luis Fenollosa Emilio from {{cite book |last1=Emilio |first1=Luis Fenollosa |title=The Emilio Collection of Military Buttons: American, British, French and Spanish, with Some of Other Countries, and Non-military, in the Museum of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.
Firmin & Sons is a British company, founded in 1655, that manufactures and supplies military ceremonial buttons, badges, accoutrements, and uniforms. Thomas Firmin was born in Ipswich , Suffolk in 1632 and was apprenticed to The Girdlers Company the makers of belts both for fine dress and for utility.
An East Norfolk Militia button believed to date from 1770–80 has "E" over NORFOLK over "B" (for Battalion). A button from ca 1780–1800 has an ornate 'EN' within an eight-pointed cut star. [97] The officers' buttons until 1881 carried the castle and lion within a crowned garter inscribed EAST NORFOLK. [18]
English: A Post Medieval copper alloy button decorated with a crown over the number 2 SOMERSET REG(T). Originally formed in 1797 as the West Somerset Supplementary Militia, the unit had become the 2nd Somerset Militia by 1800, a title the unit kept until becoming Light Infantry in 1876.
A pin-back button or pinback button, pin button, button badge, or simply pin-back or badge, is a button or badge that can be temporarily fastened to the surface of a garment using a safety pin, or a pin formed from wire, a clutch or other mechanism. This fastening mechanism is anchored to the back side of a button-shaped metal disk, either flat ...
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A chief petty officer in the blue uniform wears three buttons on their sleeves to indicate rank, the same rank insignia (but topped with a star) used by Chilean Navy midshipmen. The WO2 rank began to be phased out in April 2014 for most branches except Submariner engineers, with no new appointments; existing holders of the rank retain it until ...