BUTTONS D'UNIFORMES A collection of buttons from French military and civilian uniforms, mostly from the Restoration to the Third Republic, of large module (about 20 mm in diameter), most often gilded (or made of copper or brass), in good or fairly good condition, some in duplicate, and fixed on rigid plates of 33 x 25 cm with a dark blue cloth background (not dismantled to examine their backs). Six trays : Military Schools (including copies of Restoration and a School of Pages), some oxidized, descriptive labels on the tray; Paris Guard and Republican Guard from 1816 to the IIIrd Republic, some oxidized, descriptive labels on the tray; attempted census of the manufacturers of military buttons from grenade ignited buttons with scroll (3rd Republic infantry officer, Dragons, Cuirassiers, etc) gold, some silvered, descriptive labels on the plate; National Guard 1815-1830, with labels; National Guard 1830-1848, including staff, with labels; National Guard 1870-1871. Set about 330 buttons