POLITICAL AND MILITARY BUTTONS BELONGING TO JOHN W. MELDRUM OF WYOMING,

POLITICAL AND MILITARY BUTTONS BELONGING TO JOHN W. MELDRUM OF WYOMING, (image 1/1)
Pricing & History
lot of 24, including a brass crossed rifles infantry pin from 43rd Infantry, PLUS two 0.5" domed brass U.S. Army eagle buttons, PLUS a 0.5" button hole sterling and blue enamel pin with UC, PLUS an embossed white metal pin with R.L.C./16 To 1/Denver/1894, 0.75" x 0.5" with mountain in background, PLUS nine cello pins that are about 0.5" diameter including five different Red Cross pins, PLUS two different Harding & Coolidge pins, PLUS U.S. flag pin, PLUS portrait Wm. H. Taft pin, PLUS one 0.75" Taft pin, PLUS four about 1" diameter cello pins, including jugate Harrison and Morton, PLUS a Lincoln cello with red, white and blue ribbon, PLUS pin from Monida Yellowstone Stage Co. with ribbons, PLUS Yellowstone Park pin with grizzly, PLUS printed silk flag on pin, 1" x 1.75", PLUS a pin cushion made with printed silk ribbon with Washington and crossed flags, 7" x 10", AND a copper and wood printed block with portrait of Admiral Dewey. JOHN W. ("Jack") MELDRUM (1843 - 1936) was born in Caledonia, New York. He enlisted in the New York 14th HA in 1863 at the age of 20, and saw action in the Battle of the Wilderness. The unit was in the lead in the charge at Petersburg (mine explosion). After the war, he moved West, raising stock with his brother Norman in La Porte, CO for a while before moving to Cheyenne, WY in 1868 with his wife Emmaline. read more
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