Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868.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 campaign medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Schuyler Colfax facing left. The legend reads: SCHUYLER COLFAX.
- Reverse: The legend reads: LOYALTY SHALL GOVERN WHAT LOYALTY HAS PRESERVED.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Colfax, Schuyler
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1868
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Measurements
- overall: 3.2 cm; 1 1/4 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
