Button
- Object Name:
- Button
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.102
- Creator:
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Waterbury, CT
- Date:
- 1850-1870
- Description:
- Buttons, gold, pair. Round button with raised pattern on front. Design is the seal of the State of New Hampshire, without the outer ring of text, and "NEW HAMPSHIRE / VOL. MILITIA" around the edge. Reverse is stamped with very worn text, "SCOVILL & CO / EXTRA". Eyelet fixed in center.
- Material:
- Metal
Gold - Dimensions:
- D-0.4 Dia-0.55 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
- People:
- Stone, Ethel Cilley (1884-1981)
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