Wearable Antique Silver:
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Antique silver buttons, buckles and brooches

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A pair of small decorated shoe-buckles in contemporary leather case by I.S, London 1784/5.
Price:
2532
A brooch in the shape of a bow by Henry Ellis, Exeter 1847 retailed by H.S. Ellis.
Price: £225.00
2326
Scottish stock buckle A large silver stock buckle imitating cut steel by ?John Dempster, Edinburgh circa 1790.         ( Image shows marks at both ends of the buckle)
Price:0
1423
pair silver-gilt shoe buckles A pair of silver-gilt shoe buckles by Charles Rawlings, London 1819.
Price: £170.00
9961
A pair of large plain buttons by Sandilands Drinkwater circa 1745 (bobbly-bottomed lion).
Price: £155.00
2180

An enamelled brooch showing a royal crown over a monogram unmarked, circa 1900.
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In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Prioress is noted as wearing a brooch with a crowned emblem. Commenting on the passage, Phyllis Hodgson (1969) notes that  for a nun to wear a brooch was worldly vanity but that "customarily such an emblem combined M and A in a monogram standing for 'Maria', surmounted by a crown to designate [her as] the Queen of Heaven". The design has also been noted as pertaining to Mary, Queen of Scots.

2075

A Queen Victoria Jubilee brooch with V, rose, thistle and shamrock in a garter surmounted by a Royal Crown; unmarked, inscribed THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE 1886/7 (sic), also with Registration mark on reverse 'Rd 27426'.
Price: £145.00

[Queen Victoria inherited the throne on the death of her Uncle, William IV on 20th June 1837. However, due to the conflict between the historical and civil calendars, her reign was deemed legally to have started on 20th June 1836 — so, for example, "The Jubilee Date Book" (published 1887) records Victoria's Jubilee year as "20th June 1886 to 19th June 1887"]

2146
Scandinavian silver-gilt scarf-pin A silver-gilt Norwegian? peasant scarf-pin engraved JP 1768 marked perhaps for Bergen with unidentified maker's mark.
Price: £145.00
9917
A pair of silver collar studs by Joseph Willmore (with duty mark and lion) circa 1800
Price: £140.00
   9675
A large Luckenbooth brooch by D.C. Rait, Glasgow 1870.
Price: £125.00
2447
 silver nurse's belt buckle A nurse's buckle shaped as 2 hexagons by Adie and Lovekin, Birmingham 1899.
Price: £125.00
2045
Swedish silver-gilt brooch A silver-gilt heart-shaped brooch, pierced and engraved by Lorenz Wilhelm Fougberg, Boras, Sweden circa 1850.
Price: £120.00
1117
A nurse's buckle by Spurrier & Co, London 1903.
Price: £110.00
2008
silver knee buckles A pair of mock cut-steel knee-buckles by George Bower, Birmingham 1816.
Price: £110.00
1886
An engraved Luckenbooth brooch by Celtic Arts Industries also marked IONA Sterling Scotland, early 20th century.
Price: £95.00
2537
A nurse's buckle by G. E. Walton Ltd., Birmingham 1898.
Price:
2292
Silver nurse's belt buckle A nurse's buckle (maximum belt-width 1.6 inches) by B.S.B, London 1897.
Price: £85.00
8757
Norwegian silver-gilt peasant brooch A Norwegian peasant brooch in the shape of a gilded heart with 5 suspended leaves; marked 826S and ME incuse, circa 1880.
Price: £75.00
8173
Norwegian(?) cloak studs A pair of filigree dress-studs of peasant origin, probably Norwegian circa 1850.
Price: £75.00
8885
A beaded breeches buckle by George Bower, Birmingham 1813.
Price: £75.00
2263
Child's buckle A child's or breeches buckle aping cut steel by George Bower, Birmingham 1814.
Price: £70.00
9468
Lover's silver ploughing badge Erotica? A lover's ploughing badge - an engraved garter encircling a heart. On the heart engraved a ploughing scene with the words 'Go on'.
Price:
9530