Vintage NYPD Special Police Badge Tin Litho Pinback Button on Card New York City New Old Stock Made in Japan 🚔 royal_oak_michigan Local legend in novelty collecting

Local legend in novelty collecting circles has it that this kind of "in the spirit of" character work was actually a cottage industry among Hong Kong export toy artists

the reputation itself has followed RC through generations of soda drinkers and collectors

Which means that most of them were opened

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pressure damage

Vintage NYPD Special Police Badge Tin Litho Pinback Button on Card New York City New Old Stock Made in Japan 🚔 royal_oak_michigan Local legend in novelty collectingOne little button, one great city, one very datable design Most vintage novelty badges keep their age a secret. They lean on a "Made in Japan" mark and a hunch, and the most honest thing anyone can say about them is "mid century, probably." This one is different, and that difference is the whole reason to love it. Printed on the face of this small tin lithograph pinback is a design so specific so faithfully copied from a real, dated emblem that it