Information please on badges and buckle

[Burdie]

Hi every one. I found these items in Southeast Kansas years ago. Can you tell me a little about the badges and the Hickok buckle.
Thanks in advance.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A Handbook of Civil War Bullets and Cartridges - Grab it through Amazon!

[JakePhelps]

The hickoc is a common manufacturer of old buckles, they made silver, silverplate, pewter, and a few other types. I have a few with symbols i could not ID, i think they are custom made or something. Nice badges

 

[Leon]

As stated above Hickok was a very well known maker of buckles. If you do a google you will find a lot of them. I have found a few myself, but can't find out much info on them. From what I can tell, a lot of the buckles they made were very high priced, silver, & gold... One of the ones I found was brass, and the other I think is pewter, you can see them at this link:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,24643.0.html

The little buckle top center, I think is a suspender buckle. You can see one very similar to it a little over halfway down this page:
http://www.greybirdrelics.com/Miscellaneous_Non_Dug_Artifacts.htm
It's listed as Parris" Suspender Buckles. I have found one similar to it also, although the one I have has no markings on it...
Not sure if the ones without markings are from the Civil War era, or not, but evidently the ones marked Parris were...

Love the badges,,, those ones shaped like a star are awesome...
Not much help, sorry...
Good luck & Happy hunting~

 

[stoney56]

Stan, is there any markings on the backs of any of the badges?

 

[PBK]

The badges look like toy badges, c. 1950's. Some were giveaways (usually smaller and thinner), either advertising premiums or freebies handed out to kids by local law enforcement; but most of this size were dime store items. Here's an eBay link to a shield-shaped "Junior Police" badge like the one you found:

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-OLD-JUN...egoryZ30QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Burdie]

Hey you guys are super!!! Jake and Leon a big thanks WTG. The sites are very informative.

Stoney, no markings on back my friend.

PBK nice to hear from you again. My research indicates they were given out at schools for fire prevention and good deeds in the 40's - 50's. I found one on school ground and the other in a yard across from a school.