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Lot 2155
Six Confederate Buttons Dug in Virginia
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Brass, to include: two blockade-run lined "I" buttons, 22mm (one with shank and SUPERIOR QUALITY backmark, the other lacking much of its back); an imported script "I" button's face (losses to much of right edge, no back); block "I" face (flattened with secondary diagonal impression); two local block "A" buttons, 24mm (one with plain brass back and shank, the other with tin back lacking shank).

Recovered in Petersburg, Virginia area, late 1960s-early 1980s