Original Union Button Questions

[grimes]

My mother picked these up on vacation from a relics dealer. It is three General Service jacket buttons, and one looks to be Kepi button.

Was wondering if they are actually originals?

I think the three jacket buttons are Civil War, but the Kepi button looks like Indian Wars.

 

[Frederick14Va]

Unfortunately they are all post civil war era...

The small cap/vest/cuff size button is indeed later Indian War era post 1875...

The larger three are all modern reproductions... Waterbury Button Company was existing and making buttons even well before the Civil War era.. and still are.... However the back mark on the two you have here are modern post-1965 to present markings... "Superior Quality" was a generic stamp used by a host of different makers, some of which are domestic and imported war time era and well beyond... and still are also... Yours has the modern style markings that use a different lettering font and arrangement than the war time originals typically did..

 

[grimes]

That's too bad to hear. Was hoping at least one was Civil War.

Though she only paid $20 for all of them, so not too big a loss.