Vintage Abilene Police Special Police Badge 🦅 Tin Litho Pin-Back Button NOS Japan Card Mid-Century art_nouveau_label The bison standing proud on

The bison standing proud on blue

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The cardinal rule for paper-backed tin novelties like this is to keep them away from humidity and direct light

The tag measures roughly one inch across its disc face

Vintage Abilene Police Special Police Badge 🦅 Tin Litho Pin-Back Button NOS Japan Card Mid-Century art_nouveau_label The bison standing proud onDoes a Toy Badge Know Something About a Town's Soul? Pick this up and hold it for a moment. Really hold it. A round tin button, barely bigger than a half dollar, dressed in red and black and gold and on its face, a fierce American eagle spreads its wings wide over an open book and a sword, rendered in that flat, graphic, unmistakable mid century lithograph style that makes everything feel simultaneously serious and mythic. Above the eagle, arched in