An imaginary reward for stupidity.
1837.
| A leather medal his reward should be, | |
| A leather medal and an LL. D.! | |
‘Harvardiana,’ iv. 147. |
1840. Let a monument of brick-bats be raised to your administration, and your Secretary of the Navy be rewarded with a leather medal!—E. S. Thomas, ‘Reminiscences,’ i. 296 (Hartford, Conn.).
1860. The individual who conceived the leather medal idea [for identifying dogs] deserves a leather medal himself.—Richmond Enquirer, April 20, p. 2/5.
