Vintage 1950s Gainesville Police 🚔 Special Tin Lithography Badge NOS Original Card Japan Novelty Pin household_brand_collectible well-registered examples from this era

well-registered examples from this era and the more perfunctory work

a printer's error that was never corrected because correcting a print run cost money

This is label design working at full confidence — no tentative strokes

Local legend among collectors of domestic ephemera holds that the figure used in broom and cleaning product labels of this era was often drawn from a composite of real women — sometimes a lithographer's wife

Labels from bottlers like M

Vintage 1950s Gainesville Police 🚔 Special Tin Lithography Badge NOS Original Card Japan Novelty Pin household_brand_collectible well-registered examples from this era# What Does a 1950s Florida Badge Look Like After Seventy Years? Like the Day It Left the Counter. There is a moment every serious collector knows. You are sorting through a flat of old cards at an estate sale, or digging through a wooden crate at an antique mall somewhere off the highway, and your fingers land on something that simply feels *different.* The surface has a depth to it. The colors hold. The card hasn't yellowed into oblivion. You turn