Sattara Local Infantry. 22mm brass button

A scarce button of one of local units of Europeans raised at the time of the Indian Mutiny and disbanded in the early 1860s. The brass 22mm button has the design of the title SATTARA LOCAL INFANTRY  around a Victorian crown within a French scroll and dot. It is in excellent condition and has the backmark SMITH KEMP & WRIGHT . BIRMINGHAM . Sattara [now Satara] was a town in the Bombay Presidency some 100 km south of Poona. The unit appears in the East India Register 1858 commanded by Captain J  Rose and still appears in the Indian Army & Civil Service List 1863  when the commandant was Major C.W. Walker with an assistant Lieutenant E. P. Bartholomew. jan15/1