Title: Buttons-clean them up Post by: farmer(phil) on April 25, 2010, 05:06:02 PM Cleaned up a button found this weekend
Any ideas...inscription is MEMOR AMICI, which googled says something in Latin.."Remember friends?" Made of copper, I think. Nice little thing Farmer Phil 8) ;) Title: Re: Buttons-clean them up Post by: 150aceboy on May 24, 2010, 08:48:58 PM Nice button m8, love the picture on it, well done
Ace ;) Title: Re: Buttons-clean them up Post by: geordiefred on May 24, 2010, 08:58:19 PM great button m8 well done ;)
Title: Re: Buttons-clean them up Post by: The Doc on May 24, 2010, 09:05:59 PM Hi Phil, I didn't see this when it was first posted. I believe the crest belongs to the Watts-Russell family, possibly Jesse Watts-Russell. See here:
http://cgi.ebay.es/EX-LIBRIS-ancien-WATTS-RUSSELL-MEMOR-AMICI-BICORNE_W0QQitemZ220525863906QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SILF:ES:101 (http://cgi.ebay.es/EX-LIBRIS-ancien-WATTS-RUSSELL-MEMOR-AMICI-BICORNE_W0QQitemZ220525863906QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SILF:ES:101) and here: http://thepeerage.com/p14828.htm#i148277 (http://thepeerage.com/p14828.htm#i148277) Title: Re: Buttons-clean them up Post by: farmer(phil) on May 24, 2010, 09:58:37 PM Thanks Peterh....don't know how you do it???
Thought it was of some intrest, especially the quality of it Cheers once again Farmer Phil 8) ;) Title: Re: Buttons-clean them up Post by: Neil on May 25, 2010, 10:12:43 AM Thats come up great Phil :o - what did you clean it with?
I got a few that could do with that treatment! Neil Title: Re: Buttons-clean them up Post by: coinhunter on May 25, 2010, 05:15:09 PM Nice button m8 well done :)
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