Vintage Wyoming Highway Patrol 🦬 Special Police Tin Litho Badge New Old Stock Original Card Made in Japan red_tin_advertising It has simply been kept

It has simply been kept somewhere since its production in the early-to-mid 1990s

and understanding who they are helps explain why something as apparently humble as a popcorn bag commands serious collector attention

🖼️ Frame the flat sheet

carrying its own decade of drugstore history in a package you could still tuck into a pocket today

producing something that feels simultaneously mechanical and warmly human

Vintage Wyoming Highway Patrol 🦬 Special Police Tin Litho Badge New Old Stock Original Card Made in Japan red_tin_advertising It has simply been keptDo You Remember When a Badge This Small Could Make You Feel Ten Feet Tall? There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you hold something like this. A round tin button, brilliant in red and black and gold and blue, with a white buffalo standing proud on a field of sky and arched around it in bold yellow letters, the words Wyoming Highway Patrol. It is a complete world compressed into one and a half inches of color lithograph tin.