Crested livery button with the Irish Fittzgerald motto CROM A BOO, silver plated A large 27mm silver plated livery button

FITZGERALD. A 27mm silver plated livery button showing an animalwhich i find hard to describe. It stands on a torse and is to be seen in some amrs of the Irish Dukes of Leinster [one shown from our 1809 book of arms. The motto above the quadruped is CROM A BOO – an ancient war cxry of the Fitzgerald family [the duke’s family name]. The button has the backmark PITT & Co. 31 …