November 15 & 16, 2022 Extraordinary Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/15/2022
Silver Bottony cross with T-bar pin and catch in place on reverse, edges faceted in chip-carved fashion and obverse engraved with starbursts on each tip with larger, more complex starburst at center. As part of the quartered Calvert-Crossland arms, revived on the state’s Great Seal in 1854, the Bottony cross became a Civil War state symbol on the level of the Palmetto Tree for South Carolinians, and was perhaps valued the more by Marylanders in Confederate service as the state itself did not secede. Bradley Johnson used it on his headquarters flag while commanding the Maryland Line, and it is found on a guidon of the 4th Maryland (Chesapeake) Artillery. CONDITION: Very good. Minor age tarnishing.