Douglas and Johnson: Pristine jugate ferrotype badge

Badge promoting Stephen Douglas for president and Herschel Johnson for vice president, 1860. Brass shell with inset ferrotypes. Variant of Dewitt 1860-38 (Douglas portrait #1). Holed for suspension.

OBV: Portrait of Douglas to quarter right; around, STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. 1860, olive spray to left and right of date; circle enclosing ferrotype is pearled. REV: Same as obverse with of Johnson to quarter right; around, HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. 1860.

Bright, almost uncirculated example. Had the Democratic Party not been divided, Douglas would have been our 16th president and Abe Lincoln a footnote in history.