Confederate lined R coat button

[Joe-Dirt]

Would this be a “sharp shooter” button? I’ve never seen one of these, very cool, nice find!!!

 

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[WilliVanilli]

Joe, yes. It is from a sharpshooter.

 

[WilliVanilli]

Recently learned that there were around 130 listed riflemen in Virginia and of those, very few were issues uniforms. Hence the rarity.

 

[duggap]

The 12th addition was copyrighted in 2010 and the price is about the same as JoeG quoted.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

That’s a real beauty, congrats and welcome

 

[A2coins]

Amazing find that's a display case center piece!!!!!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions!