News boy Brass Badge

[Bates]

This is actually yesterday's find but really cool I can't really read the last couple numbers of the date but it's 18 something and it says Atlanta newsboy the pin on the back is missing but otherwise in pretty good shape considering age I found it by my pecan tree

 

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[WaterScoop]

Super sweet find, Congratulations!

 

[CRUSADER]

So the 525th member of the ''Atlanta newsboy''. What is the Atlanta newsboy?

 

[BLK HOLE]

So the 525th member of the ''Atlanta newsboy''. What is the Atlanta newsboy?

Cru, iNewboys were the young men who stood on the street and sold papers, the badge would identify a legit seller.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice find.

 

[thrifty76now]

Certainly is a neat old badge.

 

[against the wind]

Very cool, but no stinkin badge could stop me from selling my Playboy Mags. LOL

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice find, Congratulations!

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru, iNewboys were the young men who stood on the street and sold papers, the badge would identify a legit seller.

ok thanks

 

[BLK HOLE]

Very cool, but no stinkin badge could stop me from selling my Playboy Mags. LOL

Badges?! Who needs stinking badges?!?

 

[Geoclean]

This is actually yesterday's find but really cool I can't really read the last couple numbers of the date but it's 18 something and it says Atlanta newsboy the pin on the back is missing but otherwise in pretty good shape considering age I found it byView attachment 1559791 my pecan tree

I love to see finds like this and only have to wonder who the person had seen that had this? The part of MD that brings hidden history to life.

 

[vpnavy]

I searched Google and found "newsboy" badges were very common. Here are just a few...

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[Carolina Tom]

That is a sweet find. Congrats!

 

[dirtlooter]

very high in the cool factor, awesome find

 

[Bates]

Thanks for all the comments ...I wish I could read the date on it but my eyesight has started the downward progression

 

[Bates]

Me too except for the antique dentures I found ....eeeewww

 

[sutphin]

NICE BADGE

 

[diggummup]

Can't help on the value but I like it. Ne piece of history. They even had their own Union and strikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboys'_strike_of_1899

 

[DetectingGodlikeOnOlympus]

I feel sorry for all the people who thought they could buy black market newspapers from unlicensed news boys. One minute you are handing someone a nickel for an unofficial rag, the next you are waking up crying and shivering in a bathtub and missing your kidney.

Nice find!