1st West Yorkshire, small, domed, silvdr plated 14mm officer’s button

The excellent example of an officer’s small, domed 14mm button in silver plate has the backmark FIRMIN. LONDON and is shown in Ripley: Yeomanry Buttons 1830-2000 [2005] shows this button [272], dating it to 1844-1889 when the regiment became the Yorkshire Dragoons.  The design shows lettering 1 WEST YORKSHIRE YEOMANRY around a Yorkshire rose. The size and style of this button suggests this example dates from the early part of that period. mar27/2

This is another button from a personal collection which I put together largely in the 1970s and has not been cleaned.