Franklin Pierce Commemorative Token
- Description (Brief)
- This commemorative token was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the mid-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, and campaign medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Franklin Pierce facing left. Legend: 14th PRESIDENT, U.S.A./1853-1857/FRANKLIN PIERCE.
- Reverse: Legend: "POOR PIERCE"/ CONGRESSMAN/ UNITED STATES SENATOR/ BRIGADIER GENERAL IN MEXICAN WAR/ GREATER SOLDIER THAN STATESMAN/ FAVORED SLAVERY UNTIL OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR/ "FIRST OF CIVIL WAR LIGHTED.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Pierce, Franklin
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.6 cm; 1 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1640
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1640
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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