Button, Military
- Object Name:
- Button, Military
- Object ID:
- 1964.016.03.03.1-.2
- Creator:
- Horstmann Brothers & Company
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1862-1865
- Description:
- Military Buttons, pair. Gilded, stamped brass shell with flat brass rim. Rampant eagle holding arrows and an olive branch in talons; shield on the chest of the eagle; surrounded by a circle of twenty stars. "HORSTMANN BROS. & CO. / N. YORK" stamped on back plate around a steel wire shank. Part of a set of 24 buttons from the uniform of Elias F. Smith (1835-1906).
- Material:
- Metal
Brass
Steel - Dimensions:
- D-0.4 Dia-0.6 inches
- Provenance:
- Mary I. Smith, the donor, was the daughter of Elias F. Smith (1835-1906).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary I. Smith
- Subjects:
- Civil War
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