Re: Early Ford Employee Badge
I posted your picture in another group and this was one of the responses;
"Blanks are pretty common to find. From what I’m to understand, all metal badges & tool checks, except for the really early ones made by Whitehead & Hoag, were produced in-house at the Nankin Mills Village Industry Plant in Michigan. My best guess would be blanks would be sent down to the individual plants alongside matched badges & checks in case more checks needed to be produced. R.C. Ross might have been the badge crib or tool crib attendant at Atlanta and just made himself up a custom check."
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