COLLECTION OF CONFEDERATE REGULATION MILITARY BUTTONS. Included in this collection are buttons depicting all branches of Confederate service including Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry, Rifle Corps, Engineers, Navy and General Staff. In this collection is a beautiful example of a CS1 which is a 26mm Confederate Staff back marked “Courtney & Tennent” (Charleston, South Carolina), an S. Buckley & Company CSA button and a very rarely offered Chatwin & Sons artillery button. Other buttons included are a Firmin & Sons 23mm Navy button “CS 52”, a quality marked “CS 56” 23mm Navy button, 3 “HT & B” (Hammond, Turner & Bates of Manchester) CS 153 Engineer, CS 101 Artillery and CS 126 Cavalry. Of the buttons on this card 20 are fine as found examples exhibiting varying degrees of gilt as can be seen in photos, 3 infantry buttons, or cast “I”, 2-pc local “I” and an imported script “I” are excavated. The Dowler marked script “A” button is of a later vintage and not Confederate. This is a beautiful group of regulation Confederate buttons that would make a nice addition to any Confederate collection. PROVENANCE: Fred B. McDonald Estate Collection. CONDITION: Overall very good to fine. Several buttons are cleaned as can be seen in photos. Gilded examples retain much their original finish. Back marks are mostly crisp and well struck, several shanks slightly bent as can be seen in photos. 4-42200 JS2 (7,000-9,000)