TILDEN / HENDRICKS

Celluloid token promoting Samuel Tilden for president and Thomas A. Hendricks for vice president, 1876.  Dewitt lists this as #SJT 1876-20 and states that these were made by the Celluloid Company in Newark, New Jersey in several different colors - this is the white version.  1" diameter, looped for suspension.  The first known use of celluloid for a campaign item.  There is a vertical hairline scratch (NOT a crack) on the Hendricks side which extends from his forehead to his lapel.