Ridgeway Civil War Research Center A virtual examination of artifacts of the American Civil War
	Civil War Buttons
	by Harry Ridgeway

Button6380-SouthCarolina-FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION-000 South Carolina button, FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION South Carolina button, FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION Research Center: Button6380-SouthCarolina-FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION-000 . FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION Details click: http://relicman.com/buttons/Button6380-SouthCarolina-FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION-000.html

B2123 ### South Carolina button, FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION South Carolina Palmetto Guard button, FAKE. I have had several Palmetto Guard buttons...This was an eBay offering with less than great pictures...The seller claimed this came from a sale 15 years ago...It had in fact been manufactured in the last couple of years by a manufacturer of reenactment supplies...This button is cast, the original is of course stamped...Button should not fool anybody, once in your hand it is heavy and obviously cast and the manufacturer intentionally took out some of the details so the button would not be confused with the real thing...Here the fraud was perpetuated by offering it on eFake, using crummy pictures where you could not see the details along with a good story...Again it was not the manufacturer who committed the fraud, it was the ebay seller who did this and his name is: J Taylor eFake handle rwt007 806 Engineer Street Corbin KY 40701 Eventually a fraud claim was filed and collected from eBay...But I must tell you that if you have reason to distrust eBay, ala eFake, I can give you an earful...I used this case to test the system, they did eventually pay, but they tried every trick in the book to trip up my claim, protect this seller who along the way admitted to the fraud, and disallow the claim...eBay is every bit as sleezy as advertised...It is probably not worth trying to collect from them and that is the way they want it to be...The lesson of course is just don't buy from people like this no matter how good the deal seems. Item listed in Fakes listing. Research Center: Button6380-SouthCarolina-FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION-000 .

B7338 ### South Carolina button, FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION cast Palmetto Guard Research Center: Button6380-SouthCarolina-FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION-000 .

B7339 ### South Carolina button, FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION Palmetto Guard button, fake. Research Center: Button6380-SouthCarolina-FAKE-FANTASY-REPRODUCTION-000 .

This is the "Ridgeway Civil War Research Center", a research tool for educational purposes only, and is provided at no cost to the reader. Some of the relics listed are retained in the author's collection, most reside in other collections and are not owned by the author. None of the items listed in this section are for sale, please refer to relicman.com sales listings for items offered for sale. This is a work in progress, I list items as I get to them, there are many patterns that are not listed yet, this list will be regularly updated as I get pictures and descriptions for more items. I will also correct mistakes, so if you see any please tell me. All items listed are believed to be authentic to the Civil War or as otherwise described. Any excavated relics have been recovered from private property with owners permission.This information is available for research purposes, pictures may be used by permission only.

Most information on this page is from:
Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776 - 1865, by Warren K.Tice.
Dating buttons; A Chronology of Button Types, Makers, Retailers & Their Backmarks, by Warren K. Tice.
Directory of American Military Goods Dealers & Makers, by Bruce S. Bazelon and William F. Guinn.
Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons, Bicentennial Edition, by Alphaeus H. Albert.
Pictures are generally by the author, unless otherwise indicated.

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