Police & Law Enforcement Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is an 1890s "stock" Private Detective six-pointed star badge. The badge has a great design with short strokes engraved all around the edge creating a fringe-like border and an eye motif at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s. SIZE: 2-9/16"...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1900 "stock" private detective badge in a cut-out star design. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: 2-1/16" height and 1-3/4" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass with painted lettering. ATTACHMENT: Vertical kick pin with...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1900s-1910s "stock" private detective shield badge by a California maker. The badge has an eagle at top and has a wonderful shine. VINTAGE: Circa 1900s-1910s. SIZE: 2-11/16" height and 1-13/16" width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880s-1890s New York State licensed detective badge made in gilt brass. The badge shows the version of the state's seal that New York used through 1883, but badges themselves were still made with the older seal for at least a...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old criminologist badge. Bryant B. Barron was the wearer of this badge during the 1910s-1920s, and was in one of the first generations of criminologists as the term "criminology" was only coined in 1885. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice old circa 1890s or circa 1900 Detective Ð Secret Service badge from a watch case. It is jeweler-made, and had something engraved across the top before it was polished off about a century ago (the patina matches all around). The...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1880's Detective badge from the Grannan Detective Bureau of Cincinnati, Ohio. The badge has a delicate zig zag engraved border. VINTAGE: Circa 1880's. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" in height and 1-7/8" in width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is an old Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Inc. reward sign offering $25 to anyone with "information leading to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment" of anyone stealing or destroying metal milk cases made by C.E. Erickson Company...

ARTIFACT: This is an old Interstate Detective Agency badge in a six-pointed star design. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: 1-7/8" height and 1-9/16" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass with painted lettering. ATTACHMENT: Vertical...

ARTIFACT: This is a pair of 1910s Watts Detective Agency, inc. "Protected" signs. Watts was headquartered at 40 Court Street in Boston, Massachusetts and offered a $50 reward for information leading to the "arrest and conviction of any person committing...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1980s United States Immigration and Naturalization Services officer patch. It is embroidered on twill. VINTAGE: Circa 1980s. SIZE: Approximately 2-7/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Twill embroidered in cotton/polyester...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960s patch for the Metuchen, New Jersey Police Reserve. The large shield-shaped patch has a city seal embroidered at its center upon bluish gray twill. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: Approximately 3-9/16" in height and 4" in...