December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Swordbelt tip in the shape of an arrow of silver-washed brass with two studs on reverse, 40x37mm; British heart-shaped tip of brass found at Savannah, 31x29mm; the "male" side of a brass neckstock clasp, with engraved design on face; and 16 American, British and French buttons from the conflict, both officer and enlisted patterns, most identified by the typology presented in Troiani and Kochan's reference book, "Insignia of Independence: Military Buttons, Accoutrement Plates...of the American Revolution" (2012). 1) 10th Foot (B10b) 18mm; 2) fragile 15th Foot (B15h) 18mm; 3) 35th Foot fragment (B35j) 16mm; 4) 47th Foot officer's silver repousse (B47a) 24.5 mm, said to have been found during construction of Bunker Hill Monument; 5) 55th Foot gilded-brass officer's type with shank (B55b) 16mm, said to have been found on Antigua; 6) 60th Foot button (B60b) 17mm; found on Continental camp in Hudson Valley; 7) brass button with Scottish thistle within encircled wreath, said to have been found in context with 71st Highland Regiment buttons at South Carolina site; 8) Royal Provincials button (LRPk) 16mm; 9) 1st American/Queens Rangers (LQRd) 17mm; and 10) lead button formed by using a 176[?] British penny, 22mm; 11-12) two block USA (AUS) 18mm from Hudson Valley sites; 13) 2nd Connecticut Regiment officer's silver repousse with bone back (A2CRa unexcavated) 26mm; 14) Continental Army 1777-78 "French contract" turret-backed" and plain face as illustrated on page 192 of Troiani & Kochan (2012)--in perfect condition, this was found by Troiani at West Hartford camp in the roots of a tree; 15) French cast-brass button, possibly worn by troops of Lauzun's Legion (a previously unknown variant of FCN) and dug by a relic collector on Gloucester Neck, Virginia; and 16) a lead button cast from an impression of a 176[?] British penny. PROVENANCE: Buttons 1, 6, 10-12 from Wendell Lang Collection; 2-3 personally surface collected on St. Eustatius,which was captured by British in 1781 and garrisoned by these regiments; 4 ex. collection Al Benting; 5, 8-9 and 13 are ex. coll., William Y. Carman; 14 from Don Troiani; heart-shaped belt tip, ex. coll. Erik Goldstein. CONDITION: varies by each piece, as seen in images, from near-perfect and fragmentary relic. 19 items total in lot.