Pac gas & electric medal? watch fob? cover?

[Bible]

Actually found this last week but it took sometime with a brass brush to tell what it said on it. I have a couple of guesses, but id like to know if anyone else has an opinion to what it is. Says Patrick & Co Makers S.F. CAL.

 

[creskol]

PAC is aka Pacific Gas & Electric. /..Perhaps an employee badge

 

[Bible]

PAC is aka Pacific Gas & Electric. /..Perhaps an employee badge

Interesting never though about that theory, weird its got that backmark, seems like the more I scrub the more silvery it gets as well.

 

[Bible]

The Sacramento City Street Railway began operating under the Pacific Gas & Electric name in 1915 it says too wonder if it could be from an electric streetcar #714 or something cooler ooo the possibilites.

 

[Bible]

PAC is aka Pacific Gas & Electric. /..Perhaps an employee badge

Neat your always right
https://historysmc.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/48543643-A444-466E-954B-346718177777

 

[Bible]

Also can we say that this badge is a deputy of the pacific gas and electric company?and solved?

 

[creskol]

I'm not sure those were actually law enforcement badges. I take that to mean that as a badge collector, Walter Moore, who happened to be a Deputy Sheriff for San Mateo County from 1943-1960, had this in his collection.

 

[Bible]

I'm not sure those were actually law enforcement badges. I take that to mean that as a badge collector, Walter Moore, who happened to be a Deputy Sheriff for San Mateo County from 1943-1960, had this in his collection.

Yea I was kinda guessing maybe to guard the old power grid that used to be there used to be pretty big

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Not knowing the dimensions or where you found this piece... it looks like there was originally a type of attachment on the back.
I'm thinking it was likely a tag associated with identifying a residential gas service line.

Here's a pic of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company plant in Sacramento, California c1912
Dave

"In the 1850s, 'manufactured gas' was introduced in the United States as a means of lighting. Gasworks were built in the larger eastern American cities, but there was no gas industry in the West, however. In San Francisco, street lighting was available only on Merchant Street, in the form of oil lamps.

Three brothers–Peter, James, and Michael Donahue–became interested in gas manufacturing while running the foundry that later became Union Iron Works, the largest shipbuilding operation on the West Coast. Joseph G. Eastland, an engineer and clerk at the foundry, joined them in gathering as much information on gas making as they could find. In July 1852, James applied for and received from the Common Council of the City of San Francisco a franchise to erect a gasworks, lay pipes in the streets and install streetlamps to light the city with "brilliant gas". The council specified that gas should be supplied to households "at such rates as will make it to their interest to use it in preference to any other material". The Donahue brothers and Eastland incorporated the San Francisco Gas Company on August 31, 1852.

The San Francisco Gas and Electric Company and the California Gas and Electric Corporation merged to form the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on October 10, 1905. The consolidation provided the California Gas and Electric Corporation with access to the large San Francisco market and a base for further financing. PG&E began delivering natural gas to San Francisco and northern California in 1930 through the longest pipeline in the world, connecting the Texas gas fields to northern California with compressor stations that included cooling towers every 300 miles at Topock, Arizona, on the state line, and near the town of Hinkley, California. With the introduction of natural gas, the company began retiring its polluting gas manufacturing facilities, though it kept some plants on standby."

 

[creskol]

Yea I was kinda guessing maybe to guard the old power grid that used to be there used to be pretty big

It could have been, but they would probably have been an employee of PAC. Anyhow, it matches pretty closely in design and purpose to the one you posted the link to. By the way, thanks for that link.I found that to be interesting.

 

[Bible]

It could have been, but they would probably have been an employee of PAC. Anyhow, it matches pretty closely in design and purpose to the one you posted the link to. By the way, thanks for that link.I found that to be interesting.

I did see one that i couldnt find twice, it had a pot metal pin setting on the back that ran vertical. When you look at mine it woulda had the same exact pot metal back running vertical. Because it was crap metal though it melted away When you flip the pin perfectly around with the pin vertical the words are perfectly straight horizontal on the other side. Woulda have been silver or silver colored but its been through a fire and i dont think it will ever fully clean again. Sorry i couldnt find the pics