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Henning & Eymann

#1 · March 22, 2025, 8:00 pm

Quote from Pioneer on March 22, 2025, 8:00 pm
Henning & Eymann of New York ( A.J. Henning and J.E. Eymann ) were involved in the production of numerous medals between 1860 and 1880. The late Dick Johnson had this link about their works:
http://dickjohnsonsdatabank.com/eymann-je.html

Interesting that Henning & Eymann made both a Lincoln medal (for the 1876 US centennial exposition) as well as a medal for Jefferson Davis in 1887. Note that Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 during the civil war. For the Davis medal issued in 1887 for the Georgia State Fair, some background/context:

The Georgia State Fair first began in 1846 at Stone Mountain, but after the civil war, it permanently settled in Macon, GA, 60 miles southeast of Atlanta. The 1887 Georgia State Fair has a so-called dollar (HK-610) related to the event. Georgia is also featured on HK-595 from 1883 (separate post in this section). In addition to various exhibits, parades, and fair-related events, there was also a Confederate veteran reunion. Jefferson Davis was among the more prominent guests (he was in prison for many years for his role in the civil war). The attached medal with Davis is a 38mm lead medal (a confederate medal akin to the GAR items from the "union" army). Numerous photographs of the GA state fair between 1886 and 1960 can be found at http://http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gastatefair/ ...and the fair lives on to this day, see: http://www.georgiastatefair.org

A decade after his release from federal prison (by late 1870s), the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis--ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln" -- popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause -- began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the "cause," and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed "an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities." The result was a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern states to the U.S. Congress in the late 1860s. Davis passed away in 1889, a few years after his visit to the Georgia State Fair.

Henning & Eymann of New York ( A.J. Henning and J.E. Eymann ) were involved in the production of numerous medals between 1860 and 1880. The late Dick Johnson had this link about their works:
http://dickjohnsonsdatabank.com/eymann-je.html

Interesting that Henning & Eymann made both a Lincoln medal (for the 1876 US centennial exposition) as well as a medal for Jefferson Davis in 1887. Note that Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 during the civil war. For the Davis medal issued in 1887 for the Georgia State Fair, some background/context:

The Georgia State Fair first began in 1846 at Stone Mountain, but after the civil war, it permanently settled in Macon, GA, 60 miles southeast of Atlanta. The 1887 Georgia State Fair has a so-called dollar (HK-610) related to the event. Georgia is also featured on HK-595 from 1883 (separate post in this section). In addition to various exhibits, parades, and fair-related events, there was also a Confederate veteran reunion. Jefferson Davis was among the more prominent guests (he was in prison for many years for his role in the civil war). The attached medal with Davis is a 38mm lead medal (a confederate medal akin to the GAR items from the "union" army). Numerous photographs of the GA state fair between 1886 and 1960 can be found at http://http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gastatefair/ ...and the fair lives on to this day, see: http://www.georgiastatefair.org

A decade after his release from federal prison (by late 1870s), the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis--ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln" -- popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause -- began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the "cause," and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed "an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities." The result was a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern states to the U.S. Congress in the late 1860s. Davis passed away in 1889, a few years after his visit to the Georgia State Fair.

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