The two-piece badge features a pin-back top bar reading “CAMP WEATHERILL / GREENVILLE.” Suspended by two chain links is a bottom portion with a U.S. shield in color at bottom showing two clasped hands reaching across and separating the upper blue section with stars from the lower red and white stripes. The upper portion shows two crossed muskets with bayonets superimposed on a Palmetto tree that has two oval shields at its base showings “SC” on a white ground.

No date is given on the badge, but the camp was a Spanish-American war training camp and the motif of the clasped hands and the US shield suggests the effort to promote reconciliation and national unity with northern and southern troops, and some aged Civil War veterans, fighting a foreign enemy. The badge is backmarked by C.M. Robbins of Attleboro, Mass. The company supposedly changed its name in 1912, placing the badge within the period.

Good condition with some small stains and loss of gilt on the highpoints on the lower portion, but largely intact red, white and blue.   [sr] [ph:m]

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