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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7741547, member: 101855&quot;]I found this piece yesterday at the Lakeland Collectorama. It is an 1864 Lincoln stick pin that features a ferrotype photo of the candidate. A ferrotrype is a photograph that is printed on a thin piece of iron. The processors had to print it on iron because the chemicals they used were too harsh to be printed on other media. </p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of this piece is listed as AL 1864-103 in DeWitt. This piece can also come with a reverse which pictures Andrew Johnson. These pieces were the forerunners of the picture campaign buttons we see today. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1325440[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1325441[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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