Pioneer Wagon Works Advertising Token
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this advertising token during the second half of the 19th 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 various consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and tokens.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Wagon. Legend: MFR. OF FARM, FREIGHT, & SPRING WAGONS/ FIRST PREMIUM PARIS 1867 PHILADELPHIA 1876/ GEO. A. LOWE. AGT. SALT LAKE CITY.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: Image of a factory. Legend: THE PIONEER WAGON WORKS OF THE WEST/ ESTABLISHED 1843/ PETER SCHUTTLER CHICAGO.
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: Advertising
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content: Industry & 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: 1981.0296.1626
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1626
objectType: label: Object Name
content: token
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm; 1 1/4 in