Cavalry Officer Eagle 'Flat' Button Bucket Lister!

GopherDaGold

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Dug this button last month and only gave it a cursory clean at the time. Boredom and freezing weather made me pull out my buttons for a better clean-up.
The soft bristle brush and toothpick revealed an eagle with C in the shield. The back says Steele & Johnson.
My bucket list included a cavalry or infanty officers coat button and I had one all along!
I would have sworn it was a flat button but I think it's probably a smashed two-piece.

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Good save. It is a smashed 2 piece, however, it is very possible it was smashed during the Civil War for use as a poker chip.
 

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very cool, great to realize that you have something already just didn't know it
 

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Nice find-- 1850s-1860s -- B5350A kk.jpg -- B5350B  ,.,.jpg
 

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Great find would look great displayed
 

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Great find would look great displayed

That's the plan. I have other military general service and the coat-of-arms livery button that were all dug in a concentrated area of a massive field. They will all go into a framed display. Want to add more but have to wait until the Missouri frozen tundra thaws a bit.
 

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Hobby Lobby to the rescue :occasion14:

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