US Patent and Trade Office Centennial Medal and 1st Innovation Dollar

DrDarryl

Sharing highlights of previous research I performed.

Note that the bottom of this page describes the aluminum medal.

Aluminum specimen in my collection

A copper specimen in my collection.

The only other copper specimen I located is in the collection of The National Museum of American History.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1382640

The US Mint took liberties in pulling in some of the design elements from the USPTO logo into the 2018 Innovation dollar.

RedStorm

Good stuff. Interestingly both of those logos, the 1891 version or the Innovation Dollar version, differ a bit from what the USPTO uses as their current logo. They still have the backward looking eagle on the union shield, but the eagle is clutching an olive branch in its right talon and arrows in its left. All of the other design elements, the gear, the plow, etc., are no longer found on the current logo.

ricko

With the listed array of bows and ribbons, it must have been a very 'colorful' affair... One would need the listing just to tell who was on what committee. Cheers, RickO

Zoins

Great 1891 medals @DrDarryl!

I found your ANA blog article saying this was done by C. L. Chapelle at Scovill Manufacturing.

https://www.money.org/collector/drdarryl/blog/1891-centennial-celebration-patent-office-united-states-of-american-

I did some searching and found his first name, but not his middle name yet.

CHAPELLE, Camille L. (1848-1923) engraver, diesinker, Waterbury, Connecticut.

Born France, 1848. Came to America before 1878. Employed by Scovill for 12 years (1883-1894) where he engraved the dies for medals listed below. Self-employed after 1894, he advertised in city directories 1895-96 as "die sinker and engraver ... dies of every description for novelties, buttons, medals, badges, spoons, ornamental trimings." Signed dies C.L.C. initials, monogram. Died Waterbury, Connecticut 17 February 1923.

Hundreds of dies in Scovill archives were signed by Chapelle; these dies were mostly for buttons and ornaments. They were widely dispersed to 22 museums in America circa 1982. [The compilor has visited only a handful of these to record their holdings.]

http://www.medalartists.com/chapelle-camille-l.html

Camille L. Chapelle, who was listed in the Waterbury city directories from 1895 to 1922. Below is his ad from 1895.

https://blog.marinersmuseum.org/2016/12/button-button-whos-got-button-die/

291fifth

Another medal I have never seen before.

DrDarryl

@Zoins said:

I did some searching and found his first name, but not his middle name yet.

Thank you.

One thing that I did not mention is that the aluminum medal is normally holed. Individuals were proud of receiving this USPTO souvenir and would make a hole in it to pass a cord/string to wear it around one's neck.

Another thing is that I did try to get the aluminum medal encapsulated/graded by NGC. It came back in a body bag as not a medal that can be NGC encapsulated/graded. Apparently, this medal is not cataloged in any of the reference books used by NGC.