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Are you sure it isn’t some form of celluloid???

C

 

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From: Social History Curators Group email list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Wareham, Tom
Sent: 27 February 2007 17:29
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Subject: [SHCG-LIST] Object identification

 

Can anyone help with the date of a trade union badge we have just taken in.  (Photos attached)

 

The Badge represents the Amalgamated Stevedores Labour Protection League.  This organisation merged with another in 1922, so the implication is that the badge dates from between 1888-1922.

 

The front of the badge appears to be plastic or covered in plastic, while the rear features a stud.

 

What is throwing me is the plastic front.  Can anyone advise on whether plastic badges like this were being produced in the early 1920s?

Thanks

 

Tom Wareham

Museum in Docklands

 

 

Dr. Tom Wareham
Curator of Maritime and Community Histories
Museum in Docklands

West India Quay
London. E14 4AL
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www.museumindocklands.org.uk

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