North Carolina Military Institute button. Listed in the book Uniform Buttons Of The United States by Warren Tice.
Circa 1859 just prior to the Civil War. BEE HIVE school button is a rare find. NCMI Cadets manned Confederate Artillery and wore these School buttons onto the early battlefields of the war, e. Xamples of this button have been recovered in old CS camps and battle sites. In EXCELLENT non dug condition with a beautiful mellow 150 year patina this NC Military Institute Bee Hive button will make an excellent addition to any collection. Please see my other auctions. The item "Confederate North Carolina Military Institute BEE HIVE Civil War button Scovill" is in sale since Wednesday, November 23, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Buttons". The seller is "lastbeatle" and is located in Spotsylvania, Virginia.This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, TH, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, BR, CO, PA, JM, BB, BD, BM, BN, BO, EC, EG, GF, GG, GI, GP, IS, JE, JO, KH, KY, LI, LK, LU, MC, MO, MQ, MV, NI, OM, PE, PK, PY, RE.