Obv: DRAPER & SANDLAND (curved) / MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF GILT BUTTONS (curved) around AGTS (curved) / ATTLEBORO (curved) / MASS. above a calendar for July through December 1853, the whole surrounded by a plain rim Rev: CALENDAR (curved) / FOR / 1853 above a calendar for January...
Provenance
By 1929, Wolf Kostakowsky, Mattapan, MA; 1929, sold by Kostakowsky to the MFA for $518 [see note 1]. (Accession date: January 17, 1929) NOTES: [1] Five hundred numismatics, MFA accession numbers 29.159 through 29.658, were purchased from Mr. Kostakowsky for a total price of $518.
Credit Line
Frederick Brown Fund
U.S. Merchant (1845–1860), 1853
Object Place
Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States
Catalogue Raisonné
Rulau Mass 600; Storer 37
Accession Number
29.331
Medium or Technique
Gilt brass