badge

MEDALS, BADGES & COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS
USA, RI, Bristol; USA, VT, Royalton
1942
3.00 x 4.75 x 0

Badge mounted on butternut panel; badge worn by worker at Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI, during World War II; circular metal badge, presumably worn by Bob Wilkinson; "HERRESHOFF" on red background, center printed "U.S./ NAVY/ 73" and covered by plastic "window"; handwritten on back of panel "HERRESHOFF SHIPYARD/ BRISTOL, R.I./ 1942" and "BUTTERNUT/ BOB WILKINSON/ ROYALTON, VT."

1989.70