
This button is cast from a mold that was made directly from our original Civil War era That's right, for the first time ever we are reproducing the Hard Rubber U.S. These are your standard pant/shirt size buttons. I think these buttons are great and offer a period alternative to the plain paper back tin that you see everywhere. The lined (lined refers to the design on the front of the button) 4 hole tin button with paper back, with a black lacquer finish. I've finally been able to secure a button that I've been looking for, for some time. In person it's your normal brass button color. Photo shows the button lighter in color than it actually is. the same size as a medium Union Eagle button, perhaps a shade larger. This great looking Brass South Carolina State Seal button. A crude version with little or no gilt and no back mark would often have to substitute. Such is the case here, during the first year of the war fine quality English made buttons were available but by mid-war they were seldom found. Shown larger than actual size for detail.Īs with many CS items local manufacturers took over production once the Blockade dried up the foreign supply. Buttons Blockade Runner Civil War Sutler Suttlery Buttons, bone buttons, penny buttons, cast brass buttons.
