Vintage Special Police Badge 🔴 Sauk County Sheriff's Dept Wisconsin Tin Litho Button on Original Card Japan midcentury_ephemera What separated the better-made examples

What separated the better-made examples from the purely throwaway novelties was the lithography itself

Her apron is white

It is worth being precise about this

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

and the supply of surviving Hamburg-made advertising material is now fixed

Vintage Special Police Badge 🔴 Sauk County Sheriff's Dept Wisconsin Tin Litho Button on Original Card Japan midcentury_ephemera What separated the better-made examplesCould 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