This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1824.The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign medals.
Obverse: Bust of Henry Clay facing right. The legend reads: HENRY CLAY AND THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
Reverse: There are two leaves around the central legend: UNITED WE STAND.
