✅ SOLVED Button experts help please

[thrillathahunt]

I found this today at an old camp site along with CW era lead round balls I think it says CSA on the eagle shield. it measures 24mm. Opinions please.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your "CSA-in-the-shield" button is a VERY rare version of Confederate Officer's button, manufactured in Britain during the civil war and imported into the Confederacy on a Blockade Runner ship through the yankee naval blockade. I'm certain about yours being wartime British-made (not a postwar or modern Reproduction) because it has the famous British "perfect circle" thread-loop, which is typical of most of the British-made Confederate Military buttons.

Your button is shown in the Albert button-book as button #CS-1 and in Tice's book as CS201A2. The one "odd" aspect about your find is that none of these buttons in the Albert book and Tice book is 24mm. Are you sure about your measurement of it being 24mm?

 

[smokeythecat]

Absolutely! VERY rare Confederate button. I think this is the first one I've seen in the "wild". Congrats!

 

[Erik in NJ]

Congrats brother on a great find!! Sounds like it's bannerworthy!

 

[thrillathahunt]

Cannonballguy I do not have calipers, just a ruler so it is definitely somewhere between 24mm and 26 mm (fairly large) maybe a coat button?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Ah... okay, so your statement that the button's diameter is 24mm was an eyeballed estimation using an inches-ruler. Saying it is 24mm sounded like you'd measured it with a digital caliper. Since you are (apparently) using an inches-ruler, 1.0-inch precisely equals 25.4 millimeters.

About it being a "coat-size" button... in civil war American Military button sizes, 24-to-26 millimeter buttons are "overcoat-size." Here is a table of the sizes, from that time-period in America (the British used a larger size-system):
11-13mm = kepi size
14-16mm = cuff size
17-18mm = vest size
19m-23mm = coat size
24-26mm = overcoat size
Note: there are some exceptions in usage... such as, the 26mm CSA-in-the-shield buttons were worn on the officer's normal uniform, rather than a winter uniform overcoat.

 

[thrillathahunt]

CBG, I really appreciate all the info. . Thank you so much.

 

[tennessee digger]

I can't add anything to the ID, but I can tell you that is a rare and awesome find! Congrats. Tennessee digger

 

[thrillathahunt]

Thanks again everyone for the replies. One more question regarding this button. Is there a rarity scale( R1-10) on buttons like there are on tokens?

 

[texan connection]

sweet find rick..

 

[kevo rn]

That's awesome!! Congrats.