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Here is a little free advertising for this seller. A nice Pinkerton badge and documents. Although fakes and reproduction badges are common, this one looks to be authentic. I don't see these very often and for now will have to make due with just a photograph. Too rich for my wallet unless maybe it had
James McParland's or
Charlie Siringo's name on those documents. Nonetheless, a nice period piece directly connected to the Pinkerton's, the likes of which, with agents such as McParland and Siringo, played a major role in events depicted on this blog.
Go check it out. And let me know if you buy it!
1900 Pinkerton US Detective Agency Badge : Old West Collectibles at GunBroker.com
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While I am browsing Gunbroker, I might as well add this nickel and gold Idaho 1911 that comes to us from a seller in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Auto Ordnance NRA 1911 Idaho #2 (no longer an active link).
Goes nice with the badge!
(links will probably not be active for any extended period)
1 comment:
Hi, I came across this post searching for Pinkerton badges from around 1890 to 1900.
Since I am just started getting into the topic, I wondered: What made you pick this one as probably authentic? What is a good source for this kind of information?
I found a bunch of reproductions that seem to be struck and have the indentations enamelled like this, while the original badge of Allan Pinkerton is a typical engraving and the well known one with the famous "we never sleep" seems like cast bronze (or some other yellow-metal alloy).
Thanks in advance for your help.
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