Federal Agency Badges

Only personnel properly trained were allowed near the storage and handling of U-233. Guards were required to have this special training. The United States produced, over the course of the Cold War, approximately 2 metric tons of uranium-233, in varying levels of chemical and isotopic purity. These were produced at the Hanford Site and Savannah River Site in reactors that were designed for the production of plutonium-239.

Uses for uranium-233 include the production of the medical isotopes actinium-225 and bismuth-213 which are among its daughters, low-mass nuclear reactors for space travel applications, use as an isotopic tracer, nuclear weapons research, and reactor fuel research including the thorium fuel cycle.

The radioisotope bismuth-213 is a decay product of uranium-233; it has promise for the treatment of certain types of cancer, including acute myeloid leukemia and cancers of the pancreas, kidneys and other organs.

Treasury U. S. Customs Service sterling wings.

U.S. Customs Inspector No. 25, circa 1874 back of badge showing J. D. Lovett N.Y. hallmark.

U.S. Customs Inspector No. 25, circa 1874 made by J. D. Lovett N. Y.

U.S. A. Treasury Specil Agency Service Customs made by Robbins Attleboro Mass. Circa 1920

U.S.A. Treasury Dept. Special Agent Bureau of Prohibition. Hallmarked N. C. Walter & Sons N. Y. Circa 1927 to 1950. This badge is made of sterling and originally had gold plating that was polished off over the years.

This is a picture of the back taken 30 years ago before the dark patina set in. You can still see some ot the gold plating around the pin and catch.

1st issue U.S. Inspector of Customs San Francisco circa 1870.

U. S. Detective Dep. Pro. Marshal. Civil War Era.
When the Union Army took over a Confederate city a Provost Marshal was assigned to provide law enforcement.

United States Dept of Commerce Bureau of Fisheries Deputy Black Bass Law Inspector.
188 badge.

U.S. Customs Inspector badge made from a silver coin.

Department of the Interior
Indian Service. Washington. July 1, 1918.
E. D. Mossman. Credential.

Indian Service Dep. Spec. Officer 163
Hallmarked Robbins Co.
Attleboro Mass.

Chief U.S. Inspector of Immigration.
U.S.shield.

1st Issue U. S. Immigration Officer star used in San Francisco, hallmarked Wirth & Jachens, a badge manufacturer in business in San Francisco from 1886 up until 1906 when the Great Earthquake destroyed their building. At this time they joined up with J. C. Irvine and formed a new partnership called
Irvine Wirth & Jachens