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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 8426988, member: 10944"]This little sucker just over 1mm across is dislodged from its original home as part of a pin or coin or some other small object. It’s in a little coin holder labeled “Gen. Sherman campaign button”. Gen Sherman famously disdained even being considered as a politician. From wiki: Proposed as a Republican candidate for the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884_United_States_presidential_election" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884_United_States_presidential_election" rel="nofollow">presidential election of 1884</a>, Sherman declined as emphatically as possible, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarszalek20001769-270" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarszalek20001769-270" rel="nofollow">[261]</a> Such a categorical rejection of a candidacy is now referred to as a "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shermanesque_statement" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shermanesque_statement" rel="nofollow">Shermanesque statement</a>".<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman#cite_note-271" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman#cite_note-271" rel="nofollow">[262]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So either this isn’t <i>The </i>Sherman or it’s not from a political button. Looks like <i>The </i>Sherman to me so must just be a button/pin celebrating him? It’s in the style of civil war era and just after campaign buttons. So questions, is it him, any idea exactly what it may be from? Can’t find one similar. [ATTACH=full]427411[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]427412[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 8426988, member: 10944"]This little sucker just over 1mm across is dislodged from its original home as part of a pin or coin or some other small object. It’s in a little coin holder labeled “Gen. Sherman campaign button”. Gen Sherman famously disdained even being considered as a politician. From wiki: Proposed as a Republican candidate for the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884_United_States_presidential_election']presidential election of 1884[/URL], Sherman declined as emphatically as possible, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarszalek20001769-270'][261][/URL] Such a categorical rejection of a candidacy is now referred to as a "[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shermanesque_statement']Shermanesque statement[/URL]".[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman#cite_note-271'][262][/URL] So either this isn’t [I]The [/I]Sherman or it’s not from a political button. Looks like [I]The [/I]Sherman to me so must just be a button/pin celebrating him? It’s in the style of civil war era and just after campaign buttons. So questions, is it him, any idea exactly what it may be from? Can’t find one similar. [ATTACH=full]427411[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]427412[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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