Lincoln/Douglas campain ferrotypes

[rvrpilot]

As promised in a reply to a post by MERF a month or so ago,here are the two ferro tokens that I recovered last spring.The Lincoln ferro was found on the west side of the county that I live in and the Douglas one came from a site on the east side about 2 weeks apart. I know they are in pretty bad shape ,but I like them.

 

[vayank54]

Cool. Not in bad shape for being in the ground as long as they have

 

[dfx willy]

hey not as bad as catching a snag in the river willy

 

[tymcmurray]

Beautiful!!!
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[JimBeHuntin']

Nice political memorabilia!

 

[rvrpilot]

Here is some more info that I should have put in the original post, the ferrotypes were found in Jersey Co. the next Co. north of Madison Co. Illinois,Where the Lincoln/Douglas debates took place in in Alton Il. in 1860 ,they were found within 20 miles of the debate site.

 

[DigginThePast]

Look to be in fair shape to me. Congrats on the cool finds.

 

[pepperj]

Never seen one posted before, cool find

 

[TommNJ]

Nice piece of history

TommNJ

 

[Knightwalker]

Cool finds TW. Just think. Next year it will be 150 years since the debate. It's like it was meant to be that you found them now.
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