Cavalry, artillery, baggage of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Buttons are made by stamping on the brass plate, followed by rolling at a wooden base. On the brim, there are two crossed cannons under a crown, underneath it there is the inscription “14th B-n”. Tthe brass plates were loaded with rhodium.

The findings of the Uniform buttons that are numbered with regiments and other items of the Grand Army are also frequent in the field of villages and hamlets of the individual houses that have been standing in this area in 1812.

A huge number of soldiers of the Grand Army were killed in the battles and skirmishes. A lot of them were captured or remained in the homes of local residents in the labor force simply during the retreat.

Buttons of the officers of the artillery convoy of the army of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are very rare, so it can be put R 5 by the scale of the rarity from 0 to 5.

This copy was found near the town of Oshmjany. It also shouldn’t be forgotten that the larger diameter of buttons on uniforms were sewn on much less, therefore, they are less likely to come across.

The findings of officer buttons are unitary. Therefore we can assess their rarity only conditionally.