Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut in 1902. 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.
- Obverse: Bust of James Mitchell Lamson Scovill and William Henry Scovill facing each other. Legend: SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY/ J.M.L. SCOVILL-Wm. H. SCOVILL/1802-1902 WATERBURY, CONN.
- Reverse: CENTENNIAL OF THE FOUNDING OF THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO./PRESENTED BY THE COMPANY TO CHAS.S.TREADWAY/ 1802/ABEL PORTER & CO./1811/LEAVENWORTH HAYDEN & SCOVILL/1827/J.M.L. & W.H. SCOVILL/1850/SCOVILL MFG. CO.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- 1902
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.6 cm; 3 in
- Object Name
- medal
