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AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE MEDALJohn Sallay submitted this note on an interesting and suddenly very topical medal. Thanks! -Editor 
The American Protective Tariff League Silver Medal
I won't comment on the economic or political wisdom of the recently announced American import tariffs, nor even on the potential impact on the international numismatic marketplace. While likely to be significant regardless of what we collect, there is already plenty of commentary out there, and I imagine much more in store for us in the coming days.
In the current environment, we're all being reminded of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of
1930. If you somehow missed this, you can read about it on Wikipedia at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act
and be amused by
its mention in the movie Protective tariffs were the subject of considerable political debate in the several decades leading up to this culminating Act, and even the subject of an award medal for college seniors, shown in these photos, sponsored by The American Protective Tariff League in the late-nineteenth century. According to a brief article in the Harvard Crimson, on November 6, 1890,
This particular example was awarded in 1887 to George Livingston Robinson (1863- 1958), who was then completing his undergraduate studies at Princeton, before his advanced studies there and elsewhere, and an illustrious career teaching. More on him can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Livingston_Robinson Thanks! I'd never seen nor heard of the medal or organization before. Maybe I wasn't paying attention in school either. It's a nice design - does anyone know who designed and struck it? A web search uncovered another example and a similar one in bronze with a different reverse commemorating a 1901 Banquet at the New York Waldorf Astoria. -Editor 
American Protective Tariff League Silver Medal (McAllister House Museum)
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The American Protective Tariff League Banquet medal (Cornell University)
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