Button ident

[Belfast]

Appears to be a dagger and possible an animal below with the dagger inserted, writing around it, anyone recognize it?
The area has links to British WW1 training.

 

[Aarong81]

Its a Livery Button and its upside down. Its a Boars head on a sword over a Sheaf of Colors. Apparently livery buttons were worn by whoever the "master" employed and supplied with an appropriate coat or uniform...and only occasionally by him or a member of his family.

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.


The word itself derives from the French livr