Size: 15/16"

Loop Shanke

Rare Back Mark: G & H BULLIVANT BIRMINGHAM

Circa: 1820 - 1840

Gold tone two piece button.

The fashion for livery buttons started in the mid-eighteenth century and by the nineteenth century had become an accepted custom among the upper classes who maintained household servants. The practice carried on into the Edwardian era of the early twentieth century until income tax and changing social and economic conditions after the First World War quietly put an end to the era of the livered servant