Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This trial medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1861. 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. This trial medal is made of plaster.
- Obverse: Bust of George McClellan facing left. The legend reads: MAJOR GENERAL GEO. B. MCCLELLAN/WAR OF 1861.
- Reverse: 91 penciled on back.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1861
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- Object Name
- medal, trial
