Vintage Indianapolis Police Special Badge Pin 🚔 Tin Litho on Card Mid-Century Japan Dime Store NOS virtute_et_armis_badge 🏛️ Present in a museum-quality

🏛️ Present in a museum-quality archival frame with UV-protective glazing as a primary document of early-twentieth-century American food packaging design and letterpress craft

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Vintage Indianapolis Police Special Badge Pin 🚔 Tin Litho on Card Mid-Century Japan Dime Store NOS virtute_et_armis_badge 🏛️ Present in a museum-qualityDo You Remember the Weight of a Badge in Your Hand? There is a specific feeling that belongs to the postwar American childhood a feeling that has nearly vanished from the world but lives on, whole and intact, in objects like this one. It is the feeling of holding something small and round and serious, something that carried the full weight of civic authority in miniature, and believing completely that it made you part of something larger than