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1860 LINCOLN CAMPAIGN BUTTON FOUND IN MINNESOTA
Speaking of a beardless Lincoln, this article from Minnesota is about an 1860 campaign item bought by an antique shop. Thanks to Colin Gullberg, Leon Saryan and others for sending this along.
-Editor
"I've always had an interest a fascination with Abraham Lincoln," says Bryce Stensall. It's no coincidence that Stensall also resembles the nation's 16th president. A costume historical interpreter, he'll make the rounds in town sharing Lincoln's story. Last fall, they found a presidential coin tucked away in the bottom of a box of costume jewelry. It's dated 1860 and on one side is the portrait of a beardless President Lincoln and on the other his Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. Rob says, "When people actually can touch that kind of piece of history it just sends tingles up your spine, Abe Lincoln could have actually passed this thing out." The thinking is it was once used much like campaign buttons are used today and 152 years later, Rob says, "It's very exciting it's also very humbling I knew that I get to hold it in my hand."
To read the complete article, see:
Antique shop owners find rare Lincoln coin
(www.todaysthv.com/news/article/197549/288/Antique-shop-owners
I've owned examples of the later 1864 campaign items, but not this 1860 one.
I asked Alan Weinberg if he knew where these 1860 buttons were produced, on the off chance it might have been Osborne.
-Editor
Alan V. Weinberg writes: I'm looking at the APIC Keynoter Ferrotype Issue of Fall 2007. Authored by Dr Edmund B. Sullivan (God of political ephemera), he states Douglas Maltby of Waterbury CT patented the process of ferrotypes in brass frames in 1860 . Patenting is one thing, producing them en masse is another and the assumption is then that he licensed the process to Scovill of Waterbury who was in business then and produced many well-struck tokens. In 1864 John Gault patented his distinctive ferrotype case process as he did the encased postage patent. It is the center mini-tintype that is important as to quality, not the brass shell rim. NGC slabs these but grades them on the basis of the condition of the brass rim, not the quality of the photographic emulsion in the center.
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