Southern New England Telephone Company Token
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
name: label: referenced
content: Southern New England Telephone Company
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this transportation 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 transportation tokens. The token has a hole in the center.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: The legend reads: S.N.E.T.CO./DIME TOKEN
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: The legend reads: S.N.E.T.CO./DIME TOKEN
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: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Scovill Manufacturing Collection
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1449
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1449
objectType: label: Object Name
content: token
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 cm; 3/4 in