GAUNT (J.R., & Son Ltd.)
Badges, Buttons, Medals, Swords etc.
Numerous plates of buttons and badges shown “full-size”, and two plates of fasteners; one plate shows the the “Processes of Sword Making” followed by two showing the range of swords - including a spadroon, pikes, and a kukhri - with partial price-lists; several pages have club & society buttons, medals and badges, cast & woven; “Old and Curious Buttons and Badges” occupy some four pages, the coloured plates are of bullion wire-embroidered and enameled badges, some of them American.
A note to the title page explains that “some of these illustrations were photographed during the Diamond Jubilee Year of Queen Victoria’s reign. In reproducing them in this edition we have not altered the cypher…”
An extremely unsual Trade Catalogue, presumably produced for distribution to a Military Tailor for reference purposes. J.R. Gaunt are now part of the Firmin Group of uniform suppliers. Ownership inscription of H.G. Parkyn, author of Military Shoulder-Belt Plates and Buttons to the front pastedown.
