Quote Originally Posted by creagdhubh View Post
I posted this above:

The present Duke of Argyll has very similar buttons on his doublet of claret velvet, which makes sense, since the Macleans and the Campbells are traditionally located in the west coast of Scotland in Argyllshire, where the salmon was held sacred as a totem or a talisman by many clans in that particular area. The same can be applied to my own clan and other Clan Chattan clans with the Scottish Wildcat as a totem, and also the crest of several Clan Chattan clan chiefs and armigers.

I have entertained the idea of having silver buttons of the elusive, Scottish Wildcat (in the passant attitude) made and affixed to my velvet doublet. Quite the expense, so we shall see.
I'm not quite sure how I missed that above. Incidentally, I wonder if they are not just very similar buttons but perhaps the very same buttons. It appears as though they've been handing down the same hair sporran for a few generations also. The present Duke appears to be wearing the same trapazoid top cantle sporran that his father and grandfather wore in half of his photos and a rounded cantle sporran in the other photographs.

I like the wildcat button idea very much.

My black velvet doublet has round silver buttons and my green barrathea kenmore doublet has diamond shaped thistle buttons but I will probably have custom buttons fashioned for both of them at some point in the future. It will be a large investment, so I have to be sure I really like the idea I choose. As you said, we shall see...