Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this token around 1836. 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 tokens.
- Obverse: The legend reads: AMERICAN INSTITUTE/ NEW YORK/ H.
- Reverse: The legend reads: COPY OF GOLD MEDAL AWARDED TO R & W ROBINSON, FOR THE BEST MILITARY, NAVAL, SPORTING, & PLAIN FLAT BUTTONS 1836.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- R & W Robinson
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1836
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.9 cm; 1 1/8 in
- Object Name
- token
