Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale. silver plated 28mm livery button

LONSDALE. A good silver plated 28mm armorial livery button of the Earl of Lonsdale showing the crest of a dragon passant beneath an earl’s coronet.  The backmark is PITT & Co. 31 MADDOX ST. LONDON.  The earl is the head of the Lowther family with a seat at Lowther Castle, Penrith. There is a little bleeding of the underlying copper on the higher parts of the deign.  feb13/1