Thought it was a neck badge.

[sscindercoop]

I found this yesterday at a local park. I thought it was a neck badge until i looked at the front. Their is no writing or inscription on either side. Any help on Id would be great thanks.

 

[johnnyi]

scoop, just a guess, but the machining on the face kind of gives the impression it may have once had another layer with design applied over it at one time; maybe porcelain, glass, another piece of different metal, etc., and this was the base on which it was mounted.

 

[IronSpike]

Maybe an adjustable leg?

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ustable+legs&ndsp=20&hl=en&sa=N&start=40&um=1

 

[stefen]

In the days of old, it was not uncommon to display badges on radiator grills...up into the late 1940 models...

I recall the badges usually denoted insurance companies, volunteer firemen, union membership, and the like.

 

[johnnyi]

Spike, interesting guess but I think it would be too weak for such a thing and the design would dig into the floor or bend the object when a table was moved around unless it was cast within rubber, but that still wouldn't explain the shape which is generally round. The trouble with a uniform badge is that the post seems too long for that? If you look closely at it, one or more edges seem ragged and never smoothed. I wonder if this object once had a thin metal with contained the the logo or design which was crimped around it rather than on it, which might explain the ragged edges?

 

[IronSpike]

Stefen may have it with a bracket for a grille badge. If fire department that would also help explain the shape.

http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250454987050

 

[johnnyi]

spike, I think we're getting close. It may be a wee bit small for a grill badge as almost all of the ones I've been looking at seem larger. Perhaps such things as this smaller badge were applied to licence plates in the old days?

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Spike, Your the man! That is what it is. The bottom piece is missing. The prongs would have held the plastic together.

 

[IronSpike]

Stefen called it, but without pic of back no green check

 

[stefen]

Darn!

I don't win door prizes either

 

[johnnyi]

stephen, buck up, you didn't lose the door prize yet. Nobody's come up with an photo example of this gizmo yet that looks like it. You're still in the running.

 

[stefen]

I feel so violated now

Goodby cruel world

 

[johnnyi]

stefen, yes you have been sorely violated. Now in the immortal words of Don Vito... http://www.entertonement.com/clips/...arlon-Brando-The-Godfather-Don-Vito-Corleone-

 

[stefen]

WTF

 

[intimer]

i tend to agree with ironspike. i remember looking inside the rubber on one of those adjustable legs and finding a similar odd shape