MARYLAND STATE SEAL BUTTON FROM CULP’S HILL

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Item Code: 286-1400

Formerly in the Ron Miller collection, this is a very strong Maryland state seal button recovered on Culp’s Hill. It’s hard to think of a button more emblematic of the struggle of brother against brother than one bearing the state seal of Maryland, which supplied troops to both sides in war, and one coming not only from Gettysburg where Marylanders were in both armies on the field, but from Culp’s Hill where they were in action close to one another, with the 1st Maryland Battalion serving in the Army of Northern Virginia and the 1st Maryland of the Potomac Home Brigade and the 1st Maryland Eastern Shore Infantry serving in the Army of the Potomac.

The button has it both for condition as well as history. It is fully intact, with no dents. The face shows sharp detail to the raised lettering, the standing figures and other armorial elements of the crest. It shows dark brass on raised elements like the edge of the shield and some thin green around the base and few spots elsewhere, but has strong gilt in the recesses and over lower surfaces. The back shows more aged brown, but with thin green and gilt in the depressed letters and outer dotted border, which are crisp. The shank is slightly bent to one side, but firmly in place. The button is backmarked in depressed letters, “CANFIELD. BRO & CO.  / BALTIMORE” and is Tice MD200A2, and which Tice notes shows up on one of Lee’s uniforms as well.

This is a great button.  [sr][ph:L]

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