1888 Benjamin Harrison and Morton Enameled Flag Campaign Pendant DeWitt BH 1888-27 Brass

An 1888 Republican campaign pendant for Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, brass with enamel, cataloged as DeWitt BH 1888-27. An enameled American flag sits inside a white enamel border carrying both names. It is small, about 18 mm, and it was made to be worn on a chain rather than pinned. Harrison and Morton turned out incumbent President Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman that November, losing the popular vote and taking the electoral college anyway. Enameled political jewelry is the most fragile category of campaign material and the most rewarding when it survives: what matters on a piece like this is whether the enamel is unchipped and whether the original suspension loop is still there.