Employee Badges

Gary in MN said:
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I found my in the 1980's at Hershey during the " mud & rain " era. It was raining so hard I walked into a large tent to get out of the rain for awhile. The owner asked I was looking for and I said Ford stuff. He walked over to a display case and pulled out the early brass Ford badge.

His price $10.00 Sometime it is better to be lucky than good.
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Lucky you. WOW! I bet you could not get that $10 bill out of your pocket fast enough?
 
interesting topic !
my thanks to all of the contributors especially Gary in MN for detailing the different mounting styles. I have a handful of these badges as SWAG for my great grandfather's '40 Town Sedan. nice to discover the early vs. late details.
Jake bought his car new and lived in San Francisco and I've read that all pre-war Mercs destined for West coast delivery were built in the Richmond plant. I've been searching (casually) for *anything* from this facility for decades and, with the exception of the odd aerial photo, nothing. nada. zero. zip.
input appreciated.
TIA
 

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Rougewelder said:
What other badges do you have? Shoot me a message, I know of someone with a Richmond badge that might trade.
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thanks for your note.
nothing to speak of. a couple of ROUGE shift badges (... as they were described to me decades ago) and a couple of tool checks. my great grandfather was the original owner of this '40 Town Sedan and when I found out that (maybe it's true) all pre-war Merc's destined for West Coast delivery were assembled @ the Richmond plant I started looking around. this was a San Francisco delivery. he was a retired S.F. police officer. these kind of numbers are beyond my ability.
I did notice the Canada badge that went off several weeks ago. YOW!
 
Jake's 40 said:
thanks for your note.
nothing to speak of. a couple of ROUGE shift badges (... as they were described to me decades ago) and a couple of tool checks. my great grandfather was the original owner of this '40 Town Sedan and when I found out that (maybe it's true) all pre-war Merc's destined for West Coast delivery were assembled @ the Richmond plant I started looking around. this was a San Francisco delivery. he was a retired S.F. police officer. these kind of numbers are beyond my ability.
I did notice the Canada badge that went off several weeks ago. YOW!
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Rouge badges are pretty common, do you have any pics of the badges and tool checks?
 
the brass one is Dearborn.
interesting key ring, too. it reads;

FREMONT MOTOR CO. LANDER WYO. FORD MERCURY
 

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Jake's 40 said:
the brass one is Dearborn.
interesting key ring, too. it reads;

FREMONT MOTOR CO. LANDER WYO. FORD MERCURY
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Very cool, I have several of those myself. The Rouge badges all have letters designating the different departments. I'd be interested to know what letters you have on your badges.
 
I recently acquired one of the rarest Ford badges ever. It is from the Brazil FORDLANDIA plant, Henry's failed rubber tree plantation. Have seen only pictures of their existance but I don't know of anyone that has one or seen one in person.
Would be willing to trade it but, only for the Oval Winged Pyramid style badge.
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Rougewelder said:
I recently acquired one of the rarest Ford badges ever. It is from the Brazil FORDLANDIA plant, Henry's failed rubber tree plantation. Have seen only pictures of their existance but I don't know of anyone that has one or seen one in person.
Would be willing to trade it but, only for the Oval Winged Pyramid style badge.
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Here is a tool check also from Fordlandia in Brazil:

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I purchased a hand full of these Ford tool checks (NFS) from the estate of a late, French, National Geographic photographer who had been on a photographic mission in Brazil to take photographs of the animals that had moved into the former Fordlandia grounds. He was later killed by the natives when he was on a follow-on mission in the Amazon jungle (RIP).

Brad in Maryland
 

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frank55a said:
I realize this is not an employee badge, but an award pin probably for years of service. Can anyone provide information as to what it was awarded for, and the time frame when it was awarded such as the 50s, 60s, 70s etc. I found it at Iola in 2002 and it is the only one I have seen. It is about the size of a dime, is 10K gold, and has a diamond inserted.

Thanks
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I posted this question quite some time ago and have never received an answer to the question. Since I found the pin 22 years ago, I have never seen another and nobody that I have shown it to have seen one either.
Any information????????
 

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Brad in Germany said:

Here is a tool check also from Fordlandia in Brazil:

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I purchased a hand full of these Ford tool checks (NFS) from the estate of a late, French, National Geographic photographer who had been on a photographic mission in Brazil to take photographs of the animals that had moved into the former Fordlandia grounds. He was later killed by the natives when he was on a follow-on mission in the Amazon jungle (RIP).

Brad in Maryland
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Awesome, Brad. I think I asked you about those in the past. Would love to have just one if you ever decide to let one go.
 
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