GOVERNMENT RELATED TRIO OF RARE WWII BUTTONS.
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Winning Bid:
$118.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
First is 1-11/16" employee badge. Text on three sides of the actual photo of woman holding board with her name printed on it reads "War Dept. O.D.B. Newark." Initials stand for Office Of Dependency Benefits. The Servicemen's Dependence Allowance Act was passed June 23, 1942. The job of this office was to send out checks to the homefront dependents and the piece is also interesting for the slogan along its bottom edge, the first we've ever seen it used on a button, "Get 'Em Paid." Next is 1.75" with a metal back and vertical bar pin. The front cello is a little tanned with faint traces of stain around the edges. At the center is a rectangular piece of paper beneath the celluloid. This shows the "Army/Navy" Excellence In Production Award and beneath this is the name "Fellows." Lettering to the left and right reads "F.G.S. Co. Shop" with the initials standing for the company Fellows Gear Shaper Company, located in Springfield, Vermont. The company's gear shaping machines were used throughout the country in defense plants manufacturing components for aircraft engines, tanks, cameras, and a wide variety of war time material. The "Excellence" award was earned by only 5% of some 85,000 companies engaged in producing war material. Last is 2.75" oval with serial number "30" and issued to a "Visitor" to the "U.S. Naval Training Station/Sampson, N.Y." Construction started on this facility on the east shore of Seneca Lake in May, 1942 and when finished 270 days later at a cost of $56 million, it covered 2,535 acres. A total of 411,429 Naval recruits were trained there during the 3-1/2 years of operation. The facility was also used as a discharge center at the end of the war and they processed 65,000 men. Couple very tiny and trivial grey age dots on the white background.
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