Scarce Assembly of Early British Royal Naval Buttons, recovered from the River Thames, London, mainly near Beatson’s breakers yard at Bull’s Head Dock, Rotherhithe where the Royal Navy ships HMS Temeraire and HMS Bellerophon and many East India Company vessels were broken up in the late 18th to mid-19th centuries. These buttons were found by Ronald Goode and formerly displayed at the Rotherhithe Pumphouse Educational & Heritage Museum (closed 2011) with his original, uncertain descriptions included. RN examples include Masters, Captains, Surgeons from different periods from 1774 to 1820, also Greenwich Hospital Service (1800-1815). Other related buttons include an interesting French ‘Equipage de Flotille No. 23’ (1810-1815), RN Lieutenant c1748, Royal Dock Yard Battalion (1847-1857) and Surrey Commercial Dock. All in excavated condition as found, RN buttons Nos. 1A, 1B, 2, 6 & 8 lacking shanks, display list included. (22 items)