Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This token was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the early 20th century. Scovill 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 various consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and political tokens.
- Obverse: Bust of James Buchanan facing right. Legend: 15TH PRESIDENT, U.S.A./ 1857-1861/ JAMES BUCHANAN.
- Reverse: "OLD BUCK"/ "OLD PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY"/ PRIVATE IN WAR OF 1812 CONGRESSMAN UNITED STATES SENATOR SECRETARY OF STATE MINISTER TO ENGLAND TRIED TO AVERT CIVIL WAR BUT BELIEVED IN STATE RIGHTS.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Buchanan, James
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- early 20th century
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm; in
- Object Name
- medal, political
- token
