Civil War Relic Falmouth VA Fredericksburg Dug Connecticut Camp British Button

Description: Please visit our eBay store for a complete list of in-stock Civil War relics organized by recovery location. We are working as partners in conjunction with Gettysburg Relics to offer some very nice American Civil War relics for sale. The owner of Gettysburg Relics was the proprietor of Artifact at 777 on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg for a number of years, and we are now selling on eBay. FALMOUTH, VIRGINIA ~ RECOVERED AT A US FEDERAL CONNECTICUT CAMP SITE NEAR THE JUNCTION OF US RT. 17 AND I-95 ~ THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA ~ This very nice Georgian/Early Victorian era to Civil War era relic, dating from the 1790s to the 1850s, is a 20mm flat/coin brass button with shank slightly cocked but intact, and has a backmark reading 'StandR (Standard) Colour Treble Gilt', and several specks of the gold plate. This artifact was recovered from a Federal Connecticut Camp Site in Falmouth, Virginia, across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia, the site being located near the junction of US Rt. 17 and I-95. The "plain front" brass 1-piece flat buttons were manufactured for use on civilian clothing. Raised-lettering back-mark date from approximately 1790 to the very-early-1840s, and buttons with indented back-marking start about 1810. The majority of the brass 1-piece flat buttons dug in the US were imported here from Britain, as until the mid-1820s the blossoming US button-making industry was incapable of mass-producing them, falling far short of the demand-level from the clothing manufacturers. In the early-1800s, many millions of the plain-front brass 1-piece buttons were still being imported from the old-country, Britain. The War-Of-1812 caused US consumers to dislike British-made products, so American button-makers sometimes included an American eagle in the button's backmark to signify that it was a US-made button. (British-made ones often have a British crown in the backmark.) At that time, the word gilt in a button's backmark referred strictly to gold-plating... and the word plated meant silver-plating. This Georgian/Early Victorian era to Civil War era relic was recovered from a Federal Connecticut Camp Site in Falmouth, Virginia, across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia, the site being located near the junction of US Rt. 17 and I-95. The digger began metal detecting in 1971 and was always careful to store his artifacts so that the find location was documented. I acquired this relic directly from the digger. A provenance letter with information and digger's name will be included. A provenance letter will be included. We include as much documentation with the relics as we possess. This includes copies of tags if there are original identification tags or maps, as well as a signed letter of provenance with the specific recovery information. All of the collections that we are offering for sale are guaranteed to be authentic, and are either older recoveries, found before the 1960s when it was still legal to metal detect battlefields, or were recovered on private property with permission. Land on Battlefields that is now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, was acquired after the relics were recovered. We will not buy or sell any items that were recovered illegally, nor will we sell any items that we suspect were recovered illegally. Thank you for viewing!

Price: 27.99 USD

Location: York, Pennsylvania

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