Lewis and Clark Exposition Pin Badge award?

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The pin is missing from back, the owner thought enough of badge to scratch initials RF on back...Centennial Exposition 1805 1905 LC (lewis clark) ... 8 stars... #85 in logo...# 2026 at bottom... aluminum
I suspect it may have been part of an award or fair ribbon... area has produced old horse buckles...

The statue looks like a budhist...D&D?...bronze color

1956 wheat

 

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I'm fairly certain it's an employee badge. I can find images in a google search, but not on the links they correspond to.

 

[aa battery]

hmm interesting

 

[nhbenz]

I don't get why they don't appear on the site, but this search shows three examples (all from the same site): lewis clark exposition centennial aluminum badge - Google Search

 

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I don't get why they don't appear on the site, but this search shows three examples (all from the same site): lewis clark exposition centennial aluminum badge - Google Search

I see what You mean... An employee would explain the initials scratched on back... There are also some numbers very hard to make out scratched on back as well... I doubt that the Employee lived out here at the time... In 1905 we were a couple days by horse and a ferryboat from Portland...the only big happening out here that summer was one of several Yacolt Forest Fires...
Thanks