Buttons
Beautiful Excavated Tin-Backed CS Artillery Block "A" Coat Button, w/Intact Shank
Wonderful displaying example of the harder-to-find Confederate Artilleryman's Roman "Block A" coat-sized button. The brass patina on this excavated specimen is fantastic, with the deep forest green dug patina, and the "A" standing out crisply on the face. There is a slight push to the right of the "A", but the face/dome shape is not "smashed" in at all. The tin-backing of this one is wonderfully intact, given that most excavated tin-backed buttons have long deteriorated or become fragile from their time in the ground. Not so on this one. And best of all, the shank is intact as well! Great displaying Confederate Artilleryman's button...
Sale Pending $119
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Four Dug Confederate Coat Buttons From The Vicksburg Campaign
Tin-Backed Block I, Rarer Lined I, Rare Lined A, and Pretty North Carolina State Seal Coat Button
Since I just bought these as a grouping from our local legendary, long-time relic hunter and close friend Dave Callaway, I figure I might as well sell them as a group! These were all dug between Jackson and Vicksburg--so that covers a lot of history! You've got the several Battles of Jackson, Champion Hill, Big Black River, and of course, the Siege of Vicksburg. You have four different Confederate coat buttons to enjoy with the history! One is a rarer Lined "I" Infantry button, one is a very rare Lined "A" Confederate Artillery button, a nice tin-backed Block "I" Infantry Button, and a very pretty North Carolina State Seal button. A couple have some ground action, and the tin-backed I has one small crack through the face. The NC is slick and smooth like chocolate! Only the Lined I still has the shank, but hey--for this price, you get a lot of Confederate history from the Vicksburg Campaign, and a great assortment of different kinds to boot. Do the math--you are paying only $81 per button!
Sale Price $250 For All Four ($75 off)
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Pretty Non-Dug, Complete, All-Original English Script "I" Coat Button
Isaacs Cambell Backmarked, w/Intact Original Shank
A favorite of relic hunters to find, and a desperately-needed button ran through the blockade to aid the supply-short South, is this English-made and imported Script "I" Infantryman's coat button complete with shank. This non-dug original specimen is a real beauty, as all the facial detail and maker's backmarking is completely clear. The brass has a gorgeous and uncleaned patina, with that perfect aged brass tonal hue. The infamous "Isaacs Cambell & Company" of London was a prolific cover-company name for the British retailers and makers to sell items to the Confederate government, with trying to minimize the "ire" of the Federal Government against Britain for supplying the South. Even the "71. Jermyn. St" address is on this specimen as well. There are absolutely no cracks, holes, or repairs anywhere on this piece. There is but a tiny push in the middle of the face, but as you can see in the photo's below, it does not detract one bit from its overall appearance and display. For the price of an "average" dug specimen, you can have the real-deal NON-dug button for your collection.
$195
Gorgeous, Museum-Quality, Non-Dug North Carolina Coat Button
"S. A. Myers - Richmond Va" Backmarked, Complete w/Shank
NC8A in Albert's Button Book, Measuring 23mm
This high-copper content, Richmond-made NC State Seal button is just perfect. It is one of the prettiest I have ever beheld. There are no repairs, dings, cracks, or damage to the button on either side. Just all that beautiful Confederate soft-pressed, high-copper content brass. This high-copper content is the classic trait of all Confederate brass, as they had enough copper, but never enough zinc (brass is a combination of copper and zinc--without enough zinc, the brass is a more darker or "reddish" in hue). You can read and see every letter and detail on the face, as much as it was softly stamped at the S. A. Myers workshop in Richmond. These are also notorious for their "light-strikes" in hand-pressing these buttons to imprint the designs--just classic "Dixie". The backmark, also soft, is complete and legible, reading "S A MYERS RICHMOND VA". I have taken multiple pictures at different angles, with half in true, unfiltered sunlight (the way these buttons were MEANT to be seen on a uniform glistening in the battlefield sun!), and pictures in just natural ambient light.
I acquired this little gem from Rafeal Eledge himself, so you can rest 100% sure it is the real deal, and a real museum-quality piece...
Sale Price $475 ($120 off)
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