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Offline noytd

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Unidentified Victorian brooch
« on: Friday 01 May 20 11:55 BST (UK) »
I was looking through a family CdV album, and I spotted something. In three photographs the same brooch appears always worn at the neck. It is worn by a mother and daughter combination.

They were not wealthy aristocrats or gentry, so that would rule out some sort of high end decoration. I just wondered if anybody might have any ideas as it is an item that has cropped up a few times, so I am assuming that it meant something to them.

These are the best close ups that I have been able to get.






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Re: Unidentified Victorian brooch
« Reply #1 on: Friday 01 May 20 12:05 BST (UK) »
Appears to be an "Order of the Garter star" ???
Brunton, Binnington, in Cullercoats
Paterson, Anderson in Fifeshire
Vacher, Vatchers, Vatyers, (other various spellings) , in Dorsetshire
Marchams, in Oxfordshire / Berkshire (depending on date)

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Re: Unidentified Victorian brooch
« Reply #2 on: Friday 01 May 20 12:41 BST (UK) »
It could be a Coldstream Guards cap badge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards


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Re: Unidentified Victorian brooch
« Reply #3 on: Friday 01 May 20 13:34 BST (UK) »
It could be a Coldstream Guards cap badge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards


Tony

Many thanks, her son was in the Coldstream Guards  :)