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Spain. Royalist Volunteers Button 25 mm, 1823-1833
Uniform button of an Infantry Officer of the Royalist Volunteers corps.
Slightly convex gilt model measuring 25 mm in diameter. It features a fleur-de-lis topped by a royal crown at the center. The reverse side has the manufacturer’s inscription «HUME MADRID».
The Royalist Volunteers were a militia created in 1823 during the reign of Ferdinand VII of Spain following the restoration of absolutism in Spain after the end of the Liberal Triennium. Their main role was to defend the absolute monarchy and fight against liberal forces, serving both as support troops for the army and as a body for political surveillance and repression. They were mainly composed of civilians with royalist ideology and eventually numbered in the hundreds of thousands, although many lacked proper weapons and training. Their activity was especially intense during the period known as the Ominous Decade.
