CONFEDERATE FROCK COAT FROM SPOTSYLVANIA BATTLEFIELD.

CONFEDERATE FROCK COAT FROM SPOTSYLVANIA BATTLEFIELD. You are bidding on a rarely offered Confederate gray frock coat with provenance from Virginia collection. This coat, according to old reader board (which was with the coat while on display at the hotel and later at the GAR post), states: “Confed. Off’s coat taken from Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield 3 days after the battle. The officer (unknown) had been killed, and the coat was lying by his side. A Negro man named Johnson wore this coat for Sunday until August 29, 1887.” Then it became part of the famous, old collection of Cotton and Hill of the Exchange Hotel, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After that, the collection was disbursed, then the coat became part of a GAR Post collection, and still bears a catalog number 391. The coat displays well as can be seen in photos. The coat retains bullion lieutenant insignia on collar and Confederate Staff Officer’s Eagle buttons. These buttons ran the blockade and are English made. A. Albert, in his wonderful button book, lists this pattern as CS 5. The coat body is mostly intact with numerous professionally repaired holes and tears and separations. The coat exhibits typical wartime construction of English blockade cadet gray wool with long skirts and pockets in tail. The lining is only partially retained as can be seen in photos. This collection is mentioned in Sylvia and O’Donnell’s Pictorial History Of The Civil War. This is a good-looking coat at a moderate estimate. CONDITION: Body of coat is sound and 95% intact with numerous repairs. Lining is missing over half of what originally was there. Tail pockets are intact. Insignia and buttons are possibly restored. 4-37917 JS99 (25,000-30,000)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2009

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	2392A	$19,550.00	CONFEDERATE FROCK COAT FROM SPOTSYLVANIA BATTLEFIELD. You are bidding on a rarely offered Confederate gray frock coat with provenance from Virginia collection. This coat, according to old reader board (which was with the coat while on display at the hotel and later at the GAR post), states: “Confed. Off’s coat taken from Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield 3 days after the battle. The officer (unknown) had been killed, and the coat was lying by his side. A Negro man named Johnson wore this coat for Sunday until August 29, 1887.” Then it became part of the famous, old collection of Cotton and Hill of the Exchange Hotel, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After that, the collection was disbursed, then the coat became part of a GAR Post collection, and still bears a catalog number 391. The coat displays well as can be seen in photos. The coat retains bullion lieutenant insignia on collar and Confederate Staff Officer’s Eagle buttons. These buttons ran the blockade and are English made. A. Albert, in his wonderful button book, lists this pattern as CS 5. The coat body is mostly intact with numerous professionally repaired holes and tears and separations. The coat exhibits typical wartime construction of English blockade cadet gray wool with long skirts and pockets in tail. The lining is only partially retained as can be seen in photos. This collection is mentioned in Sylvia and O’Donnell’s Pictorial History Of The Civil War. This is a good-looking coat at a moderate estimate. CONDITION: Body of coat is sound and 95% intact with numerous repairs. Lining is missing over half of what originally was there. Tail pockets are intact. Insignia and buttons are possibly restored. 4-37917 JS99 (25,000-30,000) Auction: Firearms - Spring 2009 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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