Victorian Bronze Rifle Corps Button - Bury St Edmonds

a 19th-century British military uniform button from the Volunteer Rifle Corps, featuring a Queen Victoria crown and manufactured by the prominent London outfitters S.W. Silver & Co.

Rifle Volunteers: Formed in 1859 during a wave of patriotic fervor and fear of French invasion, local corps sprang up across towns like Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

24 mms diameter.

Code: 53790