Confederate North Carolina State Seal button, dug at Ft. Fisher, NC

Description

This is another nice Confederate button being offered, it is an excavated North Carolina coat button.
It has the North Carolina state seal on the face of the button with "NORTH CAROLINA" across the top edge, however this can hardly be made out. The great seal of North Carolina depicts the female figures, Liberty and Plenty. Liberty is holding a liberty pole with her right hand and in her left is a scroll inscribed "Constitution". Plenty grasps a cornucopia with her left hand and wheat with her right hand.
These buttons were made in the Confederacy for use by the North Carolina troops. The reverse of the button has the original back intact, along with the shank. It was made without a maker mark and production location on the back, but it does have the single star in the depressed channel. This was the mark of “Wildt & Klein, Columbus, SC”. The buttons that were manufactured in the South usually lacked the finer details as seen on the Northern buttons.