Vintage SCOVILL Restrike Button Presented to Lafayette~Washington 1824 - exc

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Vintage SCOVILL Restrike Button Presented to Lafayette~Washington 1824 - exc:
$12.50

Greetings from Scotty the Treasure Hunter! This is a very tough to find piece! It is a replica of the 1824 Scovill gold button set that was presented to the Marquis de LaFayette. The Scovill Manufacturing Company at that time was known as Leavenworth, Hayden, and Scovill and as a token of appreciation for General Lafayettes service in the Revolutionary War they presented LaFayette with a full set of Washington Gold Buttons (solid gold), They used the same die to create gold plated restrikes and the restrikes have been dated on the back since 1946. This one is not dated so I would assume it is an earlier restrike. I did some research on the internet:

Excellent Scovillrestrikeof the gold button presented to Lafayette by the Scovill Company in 1824

It is a replica in gold plate of the original button... this button has been \"re-struck\" by Scovill from the original almost a dozen times since 1876

The front is a left facing profile of George Washington

The back reads the same as the original:

\"Presented to General Lafayette by L.H. & Scovill, Button Manufacturers, Waterbury, Con

Starting in 1946, Scovill started indicating the date of issue by stamping the year on the back

The button measures 3/4\" in diameter

The Button comes on the original card with info card in the original box. Very nice!

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