Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This commemorative medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1805. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and commemorative medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Friedrich Schiller facing right. Legend reads: FRIED.von SCHILLER.
- Reverse: Two branches wreath the bottom, with a central image of a bell. The legend reads: MORTUOS PLANGO/NATUS 1759/OBIT 1805.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- von Schiller, Friedrich
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1805
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.2 cm; 7/8 in
- Object Name
- medal
