As an embroidery industry professional, I am interested in how the Ebay market and the broader police/fire/scout collectible patch market understands the patch manufacturing business. Especially, is there any...
Like any other occupation, business or hobby, patch collecting has its own terminology. Long before digital cameras and scanners, if a collector was trading or selling a patch, he had to describe it. Colors...
Patches Most USSS-related patches available for collection are completely unofficial. The only exceptions to my current knowledge are: 1) Uniform Division (UD)shirt (white) and jacket (black) patches, which...
Over the past years many California State Police and Highway Patrol badges have been offered on the collector market with titles that have never been used, like PILOT, K-9, MAJOR, DIVER, SWAT, CORPORAL,...
As patch collecting is becoming more popular, more and more people are selling patches on e-bay. When buying patches look carefully at a sellers feedback rating and other sale items. Large feedback ratings and...
There has been only one department issued Orange County Ranger badge. It's a solid back pinched shield with blue reverse blue hard enamel lettering and a color county seal with the lettering PARK RANGER...
The Compton Police Department was in existence from 1888 to 2000. During that time there were several different patches worn by parking control, campus police, but only four were worn by Compton city police...
THE CALIFORNIA STATE POLICE AGENCY 1887 - 1995 (merged with California Highway Patrol) The California State Police was founded in 1887, primarily as a security police agency. Served to protect the state...
The below is a list I compiled from information available from various websites and police patch collecting clubs. Opinions have been expressed from very knowledgable collectors that reproductions, or "fake"...