✅ SOLVED Old military button

[Hward56]

Need help with IDn this awesome button my uncle gave me...he recorded the find in the Natchitoches, Louisiana area many years ago...

 

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[nhbenz]

Script I infantry button, 1810’s-20’s, I believe. The star belongs at the bottom.

 

[Hward56]

Thanks so much for the information...my uncle has maybe a dozen of these type buttons

 

[Hward56]

Do you by chance know what the letter stands for?

 

[nhbenz]

Yes, with the star at the bottom it is a letter I, in script form, which stands for Infantry.

 

[Rookster]

Nice one. I was looking in my button charts but no luck.Congrats

 

[DCMatt]

1812 - 1815



Do some reading about Fort Clairborne and Dr. John Sibley in Natchitoches. Those were the very early days of American occupation of the Louisiana Territory.

 

[Hward56]

Thanks so much for the info...that’s good stuff...

 

[Hawks88]

Your uncle gave you a beautiful gift.

 

[LaTxHunter]

Did your uncle mention what type of place he found it? I've found a number of military buttons, including Infantry, in the Natchitoches area but never one with a script design like that. Just curious as to what he pulled them out of?

 

[A2coins]

Very nice piece of History and great info/ID

 

[A2coins]

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