694559 Unionist badge, c.1798 (silver gilt) by Brush, James (fl.1798); 86x68 cm; Timothy Millett Collection; (add.info.: Lodge 474 was a private unionist lodge based in Dublin from 1798, moving to Ballymena in 1823. The fact that this Lodge was based at the time, in Dublin, demonstrates an establishment body within the capital when much of the surrounding area would have been pro rebellion. This would almost certainly have been a chairman??? badge for use at meetings. This is not an object that was hiding its allegiance. This was Protestant and Unionist and proud of it. ); Irish, out of copyright.