This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1876. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that 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 campaign medals.
Obverse: Bust of Samuel J. Tilden facing forward. Legend: FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/CENTENNIAL 1876 SAMUEL J TILDEN.
Reverse: Bust of Thomas Hendricks facing forward. Legend: FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA/ CENTENNIAL 1876 THOS. A. HENDRICKS.
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