Object Details
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this sales tax token around 1935. 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. This token was used when Missouri’s sales tax was less than a cent.
- Obverse: Image of the state of Missouri. Legend reads: MISSOURI SALES TAX RECEIPT/ 5/ 5.
- Reverse: Image of the state of Missouri. Legend reads: MISSOURI SALES TAX RECEIPT/ 5/ 5.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- ca 1935
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1542
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1542
- Object Name
- token
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.25 cm; 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
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- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1382564
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-0cac-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
