** UPDATED / PICS ADDED **7/27/2007 Having been involved in collecting many items, in my life, I found collecting badges (Primarily Police, and some Fire), thru the internet, to be a bit more complex than I...
Sometimes referred to as generic police badges the correct identifier is stock police badges. Although in the United States the use of police badges dates to the 1840s stock police badges were commonly used...
The Baird Company never manufactured badges. There were a very few badges Manufactured by Irvine Jachens for The Baird Company with this hallmark. These were manufactured in the 1970s and some were restrikes...