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These buttons are too good to have been found on convicts clothing; rather they would have been on a warden’s uniform. Convict buttons were plain bone,metal or wood sew-throughs.
See: https://australiandressregister.org/
also: http://www.ausbuttonhistory.com/?page_id=174
Regards,
Cathy Glover
(author ausbuttonhistory.com)
Thanks for your input Cathy. It was my mistake entirely. The dealer did tell me that they could have been worn by the crew but this clinches it.