✅ SOLVED VA Id Tag?? - Any Ideas?

[crazydigger68]

Hello. My Dad purchased this item in the early 1980's from a digger that found it in the Cold Harbor area. I've included a front and back photo with a ruler next to it for size. Although it has a pin device on the back, it has 2 holes drilled in it, i'm guessing that the pin broke at some point and the owner wanted to continue wearing it. It is made from a nice thick piece of copper (about as thick as a large cent) and is marked "D S Fox Co H". Has anyone seen anything like this? Do you think it is Civil War? Thank you for any information!

 

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[creskol]

It looks like an altered and repurposed 1924 Virginia Licensed Chauffeur's badge to me.

 

[ticndig]

Oh you're good Creskol . a little cut here , a little cut there and there you have it .

 

[ticndig]

I hope your dad didn't pay much for that "relic" it would have been worth more in an unaltered state.

 

[creskol]

A side-by-side view

 

[jewelerguy]

It looks like an altered and repurposed 1924 Virginia Licensed Chauffeur's badge to me.

excellent ID. All hail creskol!

 

[crazydigger68]

Great job identifying it. I agree that's it! I appreciate your help figuring out what it is. Not sure what he paid for it as it was over 30 years ago but you have solved a mystery I didn't think would be solved. Thank you again!

 

[sprailroad]

excellent ID. All hail creskol!

creskol strikes again! Good I.D. bud, little to work with, you nailed it.