Vintage Special Police Badge 🔴 Sauk County Sheriff's Dept Wisconsin Tin Litho Button on Original Card Japan midcentury_ephemera The background is a clear

The background is a clear

mid-century commercial illustration style that somehow makes everything look simultaneously more serious and more storybook

and boxes bound for drugstores that most of the workers making them would never see

UV-protective glazing (museum glass or conservation-grade acrylic will dramatically reduce light-related fading)

Vintage Special Police Badge 🔴 Sauk County Sheriff's Dept Wisconsin Tin Litho Button on Original Card Japan midcentury_ephemera The background is a clearCould This Little Tin Button Be the Last Surviving Example of Sauk County's Mid Century Badge Culture? There is something about holding one of these that stops you cold. A round tin button, not much bigger than a half dollar, dressed in red and black and gold and on the face of it, a Native American chief in full war bonnet stares off to the side with the quiet authority of someone who has seen everything. Above him, in bold yellow lettering arched