Vintage 1950s Royal Oak Auxiliary Police Tin Litho Toy Badge 🚔 NOS on Card Michigan Seal Made in Japan paper_cardboard_container a boldly illustrated red-orange droplet

a boldly illustrated red-orange droplet bottle with a stopper sits against diagonal racing stripes of red and black — graphic design work that feels simultaneously Art Deco and timelessly bold

closed in 1943 with no corporate successor and no parent company absorbing its brand or archives

Vintage 1930s Artesian Birch Beer & Sarsaparilla Labels 🍺 M

Museum-quality conservation framing with archival mounting materials is the gold standard for a piece of this historical significance

Vintage 1950s Royal Oak Auxiliary Police Tin Litho Toy Badge 🚔 NOS on Card Michigan Seal Made in Japan paper_cardboard_container a boldly illustrated red-orange dropletA Small Michigan Time Capsule, Still On Its Card Every so often a piece comes across the curator's table that has survived exactly the way it left the factory: never pinned, never played to death, never separated from the little printed card it was born on. This Royal Oak Auxiliary Police badge is one of those survivors. It is a tin lithographed toy badge a five and dime novelty from the golden age of American variety stores and it has spent the