Object Details
- depicted
- Adams, John
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Description (Brief)
- This token was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the early 20th century. 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 John Adams facing right. Legend: 2ND PRESIDENT, U.S.A./ 1797-1801/ JOHN ADAMS.
- Reverse: Legend reads: "SON OF LIBERTY"/ "COLOSSUS OF INDEPENDENCE"/ MINISTER TO ENGLAND VICE PRESIDENT TWO TERMS CREATED U.S. NAVY ON ACCOUNT OF EUROPEAN WAR CLOUD FIRST PRESIDENT TO OCCUPY WHITE HOUSE.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- early 20th century
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1272
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1272
- Object Name
- medal, political
- token
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm; in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1382266
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-073a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
