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A GROUP OF FIVE SILVER & BASE-METAL BADGES,
Comprising a silver King's Foundation Badge of Christ's Hospital, stitched to the blue coats of the scholars at the Royal Mathematical School, a Victorian silver pastiche of a Georgian Volunteer merit token fancifully inscribed to the North York Regiment, an Edwardian plated oval arm badge for a Covent Garden Market porter, numbered "1552" & dated "1904", an early 19th Century brass 2-piece badge mounted on a leather fob comprising a shield emblazoned with the arms of the City of London & a brass tip inscribed "JNo. Clinch, Fellowship Porter, 9th. April 1823" above the arms of the City of London & "No.10, EH", and a 19th Century base-metal cattle-drover's arm badge for the City of London, stamped with the City arms, motto "Domine Dirige Nos", the title "DROVER" & his number, "785", complete with leather strap ( one end of strap lacking). (5)
Comprising a silver King's Foundation Badge of Christ's Hospital, stitched to the blue coats of the scholars at the Royal Mathematical School, a Victorian silver pastiche of a Georgian Volunteer merit token fancifully inscribed to the North York Regiment, an Edwardian plated oval arm badge for a Covent Garden Market porter, numbered "1552" & dated "1904", an early 19th Century brass 2-piece badge mounted on a leather fob comprising a shield emblazoned with the arms of the City of London & a brass tip inscribed "JNo. Clinch, Fellowship Porter, 9th. April 1823" above the arms of the City of London & "No.10, EH", and a 19th Century base-metal cattle-drover's arm badge for the City of London, stamped with the City arms, motto "Domine Dirige Nos", the title "DROVER" & his number, "785", complete with leather strap ( one end of strap lacking). (5)
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In 1638 the City of London Corporation established the site at Smithfield as a live cattle market. There were numerous complaints about wild drovers as over the next hundred years the city expanded to surround the area. By 1789 live cattle were still being driven through Sunday congregations & slaughtered in the market, the inadequate drainage struggling to cope. It was only as late as 1855 that the live cattle market was finally moved from Smthfield to Islington.