CONTINENTAL ARMY 2ND CONNECTICUT REGIMENT OFFICERS'

Large or coat size of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment's officer pattern button. This button's diameter is 26 mm and has a face made of silvered repousse sheet pewter, applied to a wooden back pierced with 4 holes or "deadeyes", with catgut cords serving as a button shank. The repousse device for the 2nd Regiment consisted of a "C" composed of two, raised dolphins facing a dot, surrounding an Arabic number “2" within a double concentric ring border. These buttons were of French manufacture and are believed to have been part of the military supplies brought to American from France by Colonel John Laurens in late 1781. All excavated examples have been found on Continental Army campsites near West Point, except one example found at Connecticut Village. This is an extremely rare, unexcavated example and it is classified as type A2CR.a in Troiani and Kochan's "Insignia of Independence" (2012). CONDITION: very good and complete. JLK