1st Royal Edinburgh Volunteers button, 1799-1808
Gilt, one-piece, convex, open back. Around the edge of the button ROYAL EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS. In the centre a shield bearing a three turreted castle standing on water, above the shield on a torse an anchor, on the left-hand side of the anchor the 1ST and one the right-hand side of the anchor the letters REGT, (the EGT are smaller and the T is smaller still with a dot underneath it) issuing from each side of the shield flames.  No back mark.
Collection of buttons associated with British Napoleonic Wars, Veterans, Garrisons, Fencibles and Volunteers. From the collection of Maj H G Parkyn.