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Lot 318
[POLITICS]. John Bell and Edward Everett back-to-back campaign ferrotype badge. 1860.
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$250 - 350
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$531
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[POLITICS]. John Bell and Edward Everett back-to-back campaign ferrotype badge. 1860.

23 mm dual-ferrotype in cloth-covered brass medallion (ferrotypes with some craquelure and darkening). Obverse features ferrotype of Bell with his name written in negative above. His vice-presidential candidate's ferrotype portrait is on the reverse with his name, "Edward Everett" printed in negative above. Tice lists a similar John Bell item, though single-sided, stating "I am unsure if this is a pin-back campaign item, or a button." One example (Tice PC262) is with a metal border, and a variation (PC2262Am) is blank with a tinned iron back. This is possibly another variation of the campaign souvenir. 

This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the “Historical Shop”
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