Vintage Blair Township Police Tin Litho Toy Badge Native Chief Shield 1839 NOS on Card Made in Japan 🚔 peanut_brand_collectible Military themes were especially popular

Military themes were especially popular throughout the 1920s and into the 1940s

The evidence for genuine NOS status in a piece like this is visible in the condition itself: the depth and saturation of the red color

It is not a famous place by the standards of New York State geography

Sarsaparilla is the older of the two traditions

Vintage Blair Township Police Tin Litho Toy Badge Native Chief Shield 1839 NOS on Card Made in Japan 🚔 peanut_brand_collectible Military themes were especially popularThe Last One Here, Still On Its Card This is the kind of piece a curator sets aside carefully, because it is the last example of it in the collection a true one of one at this point and it happens to be the sort of small mid century mystery that is a pleasure to puzzle over. It is a tin lithographed toy badge lettered BLAIR TOWNSHIP POLICE: a five and dime novelty, a play badge, never real law enforcement equipment, preserved in New Old Stock