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LOT 2428
American Civil War and Other Re-enactment Pewter Button Group
20TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 1 in. (561 grams total, 15-24 mm).
Including American Loyalist Butler's Rangers [40 pieces], British Royal Artillery [10 pieces], and others plain [15 pieces]. [32, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
Footnotes
Butler's Rangers was a Loyalist provincial military unit of the American Revolutionary War, raised by John Butler.
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LOT 2428
American Civil War and Other Re-enactment Pewter Button Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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