Carlisle. Armorial livery button of the Earl of Carlisle, Howard family.

£10.00

Earl of Carlisle. A good 26mm silver plated armorial livery button of the Howard family with the crest [a lion statant regardant the tail extended] within a garter, all beneath an earl’s coronet. The family seat is Naworth Castle, Cumberland but the crest, often called the still tailed lion, is now most associated with Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The backmark of this Irish made button isH. FOLEY 24 COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN. may26/2

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