Empress Eugenie Trial Medal
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
name: label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This trial medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the 1860s. 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. This trial medal is made from rubber, and is the obverse side of the medal as viewed from the back.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Bust of Empress Eugenie facing right. The legend reads: SMI L'IMPERATRICE/ EUGENIE.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: Scovill Manufacturing Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1700
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1700
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, trial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.6 cm; 1 7/16 in