Beard Goodwillie & Company Carriage badge ? Lots of other river treasure

[Toecutter]

Found a little info on Beard but not much I think this is a carriage badge made out of brass, nice suspender buckle, 32 keys, brass bell, knife and some other odd and ends...

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Great relic hunt, congrats!

 

[smallfoot]

cool badge!

 

[Georgivs]

Wow, that's a lot of keys

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[smallfoot]

Guy must have been a lock smith! That's alot of keys!

 

[diggingthe1]

I really like the carriage badge!!! Great piece of history!! I would sure be tempted to shine that one up.

 

[diggingthe1]

I really like the carriage badge!!! Great piece of history!! I would sure be tempted to shine that one up.

 

[Blak bart]

Right on toe....nice work !! 32 keys ?? That's alot of keys !!

 

[creskol]

Cool batch of goodies! Love the badge! .. I saw this blurb which you may have seen, too. https://www.facebook.com/notes/port-huron-michigan/beard-goodwillie-campbell-co/10150904823813469/

I also found this tidbit about the company:

 

[Silvermonkey]

That badge is awesome Toecutter. A very unique piece. Congrats!

 

[against the wind]

That carriage badge would clean up nicely using SCOTCH-BRITE scour pads.

 

[thrifty76now]

Cool carriage badge.Looks like a very long and productive hunt.

 

[Mudflap]

Creskol.... Nice look up. Not much easily available on that company. Farm equipment...... Wonder what was the Model 58 1/2??/

Nice find Toecutter!

 

[islamoradamark]

Very nice finds seems the river is giving up some good stuff