What kind of Vaccination Tag?

[Ant]

What kind of tag is this? It might go on a USAF cargo pet cage or something like that.
23565 might be a Julian Date, that would make the first three numbers the 235th day of the year which would be 65 (1965).

 

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[Mackaydon]

What is the first line? Looks like VA20 ....ated

 

[Ant]

What is the first line? Looks like VA20 ....ated

It says "VACCINATED", that's why I surmised that the numbers might represent a Julian Date. A Julian Date is a dating system that the US Government uses on some forms and filing systems. In a Julian date the first three numbers represent the day of the year, and the last two numbers represent the last numbers in the calendar year. Get it ?

The tag looks like it had a fastener of some kind on it so that it could be attach to a cage, doghouse or some kind of carrier. I don't think it went on a collar.

 

[Mackaydon]

Interesting. I would think the number represents ID-ing the recipient as well as the batch number of the vaccine.

 

[Mike Moutray]

I've found a lot of dog collar tags like that one - usually a rabies vaccination tag. The number is a serial number that references the pet and owner's info.

 

[Montana Jim]

The military also used dates as follows as the norm... day, month, year

Examples: 15 August, 1973 & 12 September, 1965

So the date of the vaccination tag could easily be: 23 June, 1965.

I am sure whoever the "national labs" were then has been renamed by now... I thinks where the mystery will lie. The military has national labratories now but they are all scientific based and industrial based.

 

[Ant]

Thanks everybody.

I think your right Montana Jim. This tag came from an old USA occupied area.