Finally Joined the Chauffeur Club

[Fourman110]

Went for a hunt around a long ago closed two room school house. The pickings were rather slim, but pulled out this 1941 MN Licensed Chauffeur badge. Thought it was going to be a wheatie, which based on the all the 1960's and 1970's pennies I've found (about the only coins too), I was kind of excited to find. I'll settle.

As it's a rural school without many chauffeur's around, I'm guessing it was a bus drivers badge. I found it over by the outhouse and imagine someone having a smoke after dropping the tots off.

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice find! Thanks for sharing...

 

[sutphin]

MR 110 DAMN NICE BADGE FIND AND NEAT HISTORY .

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

It's a cab drivers badge, and a nice prewar one at that!
Check out this site...

Minnesota Chauffeur Badges

I just dug a 1936 Colorado one, and found this site two days ago.
Kudos!
Carl

 

[Fourman110]

It's a cab drivers badge, and a nice prewar one at that!
Check out this site...

Minnesota Chauffeur Badges

I just dug a 1936 Colorado one, and found this site two days ago.
Kudos!
Carl

That's a neat site. I found another listing that showed them (for the life of me can't remember where) and was pleased the one I found wasn't a few years later. I don't think the plastic coated button variety would have survived this long. Thanks for sharing it.


Interesting that it's a cabbies badge. I can't imagine there's a cab within 40 miles of that place now, let alone in the early 1940's. It came from a very rural town in NW MN.

 

[thrifty76now]

Very nice condition on your chauffeur's badge, real clean from the ground.