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LOT 2126
WWI Bronze Button with Cannon and Shot
20TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.8 grams, 23 mm).
Military uniform button, domed in profile with loop to reverse; low-relief cannon, ramrod and shot reserved against a hatched field; Austro-Hungarian field artillery regimen. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent.
Accompanied by the original collector's data sheet(s) with reference no.A95.
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