Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

[morglan]

Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

Found these detecting at an older homestead (though I know these probably aren't so old). It was a working farm from probably the early 1800's through the early 1990's. I assume the badge came off a vehicle/tractor or some piece of equipment, but I just can't place it. The brass/copper/bronze circles look a lot like 'punch-outs' from an electrical box or something, but usually there are bits of 'tabs' where they were attached--the edges on these are perfect all the way around. Any thoughts?

It's obvious that the badge ends in "man '60'", but there appears to be the bottom of another letter just above the 'm'--possibly an 'S'. (The back of the badge is simply bare, silver colored metal). There are holes on each side at the top where the badge was probably riveted on, most likely at the original center line of the plate.

(The other item in the pic is a NYS dog license, dated 1947.)

 

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[NOLA_Ken]

Re: Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

A guess to get you started, the blue one might have said "Craftsman 60" maybe off a lawn mower or something.

 

[Swartzie]

Re: Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

Your copper "circles" could very well be coins. Looks like a couple large cents. Are they pretty thick? Thicker than a normal coin? If you have a pair of calipers take a dimension of the diameter and the thickness. A large cent is around 28mm.

-Swartzie

 

[morglan]

Re: Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

Ken, no real google matches for Craftsman '60'.

Swartzie, the meadurements are diameter: 1.286" and thickness .036". As much as I'd like them to be coins, I doubt that they are. Very smooth, and no evidence of a raised edge at all.

 

[aka da Prof]

Re: Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

could be coin-- I have dug some col. cooper that have been totally smooth and no matter how I gaze at them-- still look like flat disks with maybe a hint of legend on them.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Re: Vehicle or equipment badge & brass circles?

Here's a couple pics of the craftsman model 60 mower. If you look closely on the handle shaft in the second pic, there is what appears to be a blue tag like the one you have, the first pic is apparently the older version with a wood handle.

I have a similar mower I found on a job site that I use for my yard now.....saves a lot on gas!