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Lot 303
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[POLITICS IN AMERICA] -- [HARRISON, William Henry (1773-1841)]. Harrison 1840 campaign coat button with ink identification tag to Thompasontown, PA Justice of the Peace J. Stewart Lukens.
21 mm brass flat 2-piece coat button. Waterbury, CT: Scovills & Co., ca 1840. Featuring military bust of Harrison facing left with an eagle on the collar, "GENL. W.H. HARRISON" above and 26 five-pointed stars. With manufacturer's "Scovills & Co., Waterbury" backmark. Albert PC 131, RV 50.
Mounted to 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. card with 19th-century inscription: "Worn by Squire J. Stewart Lukens on a uniform used in the campaign which elected to the Presidency William Henry Harrison." John Stewart Lukens was a Justice of the Peace of Thompsontown, PA during the election of 1840 and was described as "an old line Whig" in the history of Juniata County.
Property from the Inventory of James C. Frasca