Big-hat hatpins
Crowns on hatpins
Crowns: Different crown shapes for different monarchs, some change mid-stream. Here is a site with many of them - perhaps all, British? See this Australia - New Zealand site at ://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-badges/00-badges-index.htm
The Victoria Crown, button hatpin
Victoria Crown, or the St. Edward's Crown - Think Alice in Wonderland's Queen, crown with a dip in the center, protruding out and up on either side. See ://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/magazine/issue20/iss20p2.html. The Victoria buttons had to be replaced when Victoria died, so they are very rare. Or is this rarity only for a particular Irish Regiment that wore them? Pictures of buttons at ://www.angelfire.com/wa/dianaspage/BritishButtonsPage.htm. None ours. Both the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and the Royal Canadian Regiment Smylie F111 can still wear it. for valor in WWI. Those also do not look like ours, however.
About the crown: //www.worldcollectorsnet.com/magazine/issue20/iss20p2.html. Shape also used by other monarchs, but is most associated now with Queen Victoria 1837, 1901. A/k/a St. Edward's Crown.
Crown of Aragon: See Hatpins Collection Tour, Insignias, Knights Templar.
Crowns on hatpins
Crowns: Different crown shapes for different monarchs, some change mid-stream. Here is a site with many of them - perhaps all, British? See this Australia - New Zealand site at ://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-badges/00-badges-index.htm
The Victoria Crown, button hatpin Victoria Crown, or the St. Edward's Crown - Think Alice in Wonderland's Queen, crown with a dip in the center, protruding out and up on either side. See ://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/magazine/issue20/iss20p2.html. The Victoria buttons had to be replaced when Victoria died, so they are very rare. Or is this rarity only for a particular Irish Regiment that wore them? Pictures of buttons at ://www.angelfire.com/wa/dianaspage/BritishButtonsPage.htm. None ours. Both the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and the Royal Canadian Regiment Smylie F111 can still wear it. for valor in WWI. Those also do not look like ours, however.
About the crown: //www.worldcollectorsnet.com/magazine/issue20/iss20p2.html. Shape also used by other monarchs, but is most associated now with Queen Victoria 1837, 1901. A/k/a St. Edward's Crown.
Crown of Aragon: See Hatpins Collection Tour, Insignias, Knights Templar.
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