William Henry Harrison Campaign Button

[Electricbutter]

Had no idea what this was until I googled log cabin button. Looks like it’s a William Henry Harrison Campaign Button ca. 1840 . How cool is that?

 

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[Coinstar magnet]

If possible please give some historical background...I suppose I could look it up
Your find looks really interesting. A campaign...1840's... Thanks for posting this.

 

[Electricbutter]

If possible please give some historical background...I suppose I could look it up
Your find looks really interesting. A campaign...1840's... Thanks for posting this.

Found this on the web.

https://www.georgewashingtoninaugur...t-of-the-united-stateswilliam-henry-harrison/

 

[sandchip]

Very nice button. Don't know much about the buttons, but bottles associated with him and his campaign are extremely rare and valuable. Not mine, but I wish.

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice Harrison button. His campaign tried to appeal to the common man who lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider, Over twenty years ago I dug two of his buttons on back to back signals. I haven't dug another one since, lol, but I did find one of his tokens.

 

[Electricbutter]

Well, it looks like it worked too bad he died only a month into his term. Now I gotta go back and look for a token,lol, those are really neat.

 

[Electricbutter]

Very nice button. Don't know much about the buttons, but bottles associated with him and his campaign are extremely rare and valuable. Not mine, but I wish.

Neat! Gotta be one out there just waiting to be dug up...

 

[A2coins]

Holy smokes thats freakin cool its in good shape also thats a great relic and display piece Well done on that prize

 

[xcopperstax]

Congrats on a really nice find! I really want to find one of those but I have found one of the medalets / tokens. As far as I know it was one of the first political runs in America that involved merchandise to promote the candidate. Looks like yours is in decent condition!

 

[mindcrime1988]

Sweet find.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer historical relic, congrats!

 

[washingtonian]

Fantastic piece of history.

 

[rj39ny]

very nice find. Some information on my page.

 

[tamrock]

How Cool? I'd say that's very cool. With all this stay home stuff we're dealing with, I've been actually sitting down and reading books. Last month I read The Frontiersmen by Allan Eckert. Much is written of William Henry Harrison in the pages of this book.

 

[RVRoamer74]

now that was a nice surprise and one for your collection. Very nice!