Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this transportation token from 1924-1938. 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, medals, coins, and transportation tokens. George W. Gibbs was the President of the Florida Ferry Company, located in Jacksonville, Florida. There is a hole punched in the center of the token, obscuring the reverse legend.
- Obverse: The legend reads: FLORIDA/FERRY COMPANY
- Reverse: The legend reads: Geo. W. Gibbs/President.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- Florida Ferry Company
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- 1924 - 1938
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- white metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.1 cm; 13/16 in
- Object Name
- token
