An antique horse brass which has a Family coat of arms and motto and livery crest right on the top. This is a badge that would have been on harness leather or the side of the wheeled carriage owned by an English aristocratic family showing everyone else that it belonged to them. Wealthy families had their servants, butlers, gardeners etc all wearing uniforms with silver or gold plated buttons with the LIVERY CREST on them.. this is one step grander, the full coat of arms - motto and livery crest.
Very rare to find... Metal detectorist are fortunate to find them sometimes out in the middle of no where but to find them in this condition is rare.
The motto Recte Faciendo Securus on it.
It has an elaborate coat of arms in the middle which some of you will be able to identify with time and energy.
Devices include 2 walking dogs or lions on the central band with dots back ground, shield with dots and diamond shape in the middle, opposite quadrants have either boars heads or bears heads ..one above the other and the bottom right quadrant is a rampant lion. The livery crest is half a lion in a turreted crown holding an arrow and a star on his left paw as well.
No maker's marks etc.
It measures approx. 3 and 1/4 inches x 1 and 3/4 inches. It would have been attached to the leather with small wires.. they have long since gone.
This type of family coat of arms from their own carriage harness are rare and that is where my price comes from.. this may well be the ONLY surviving example left from this aristocratic English family.
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Scale is usually an English 1 penny coin which is 20mm dia....that is just short of 7/8ths inch dia.
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