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token
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this play money token 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 including buttons, daguerreotype mats, medals, coins, and tokens.
- Obverse: Profile silhouette of a boy facing left. The legend reads: PLAY MONEY/50¢
- Reverse: Image of a four leaf clover at the top. The legend reads: 50¢/PLAY MONEY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 3.1 cm; 1 1/4 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1623
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1623
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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