STANHOPE. Crested livery button of The Earl Stanhope, 28mm

The silver plated 28mm button of The Earl Stanhope of Mahon, in the Island of Minorca and has the backmark G. H. BULLIVANT, BIRMINGHAM and has the crest of a tower on which is a demi lion holding a grenade, all beaneath an earl’s coronet. The button probably dates fro the time of Arthur Philip Stanhope, 6th Earl [1838-1905] or possibly his son James Richard. Both served in the Grenadier Guards.   may14/3