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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3425053, member: 101855&quot;]Henry D. Higgins was from Mishawaka, Indianan. He was a jeweler and an optometrist who also made barometers for farmers who needed to know something about the weather. Higgins had a few of his pieces made by the Childs company of Chicago, but he also made many of his own Civil War tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Higgins had two methods for making dies. One way was to taken and existing token and drive it into the face of a softened steel die. The impression he created would lose some detail, but he had an impression of the desired design.</p><p><br /></p><p>His more interesting varieties were made by his own hand. These pieces featured a variety of blooms, leaves, stars, horns and flourishes and some quite primitive lettering which gave his tokens a great deal of charm. He made tokens for other merchants as well as the “generic” patriotic token varieties which cannot be attributed to a specific business concern.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of Higgins’ work. First here is an original Monitor token, that was made by Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut and Higgins copy of that piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]909460[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here the reverse of that Monitor token, created by Higgins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]909462[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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