with the name Peter S. Nestley in gilt lettering, depicting a gentleman on top of a large mill stone, chiseling grooves.

underside marked VxD Austria.

Height 3 7/8 inches.

According the the genealogical record, Peter Scott Nestley was born on January 22, 1879, in Holland, New Jersey to John and Martha Ellen Nestley. The U.S. Federal Census of 1910 reports that Nestley was living at a boarding house in Frenchtown, New Jersey, where he worked at a feed mill. He married Rhoda Belle Stahler in 1914, and by 1920, the couple had moved in with Nestely's in-laws, also in Frenchtown, where Nestley worked as a stationary engineer at a paper mill. He continued to work at the paper mill until his death in 1948.