Vintage Florida Highway Patrol 🍊 Special Police Badge Pin NOS Carded Tin Litho Made in Japan Mid-Century gift_for_medical_historian and here it is —

and here it is — the paper crisp

and American commercial art simultaneously — a period commercial portrait of a Scottish Terrier from before the breed's 1930s cultural peak represents an early and specific entry in the historical record of the breed's American presence

The genuine Phoenix Police Department this badge honors would go on

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Vintage Florida Highway Patrol 🍊 Special Police Badge Pin NOS Carded Tin Litho Made in Japan Mid-Century gift_for_medical_historian and here it is —A Dime Store Toy Badge That Copied the Real Thing Right Down to the Orange This is one of those small objects that tells a much bigger story than its size suggests. It is a mid century tin litho novelty toy badge reading HIGHWAY PATROL FLORIDA, still mounted on its original illustrated store card, sealed in the cellophane sleeve it left the factory in. We want to be clear from the very first line about what it is: a toy a five and dime pretend police