Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY peg leg stool 7 15/16" t x 5

7 15/16" t x 5 1/8" w x 3 5/8" d

1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe

The watercolor is early

or paint or wallpaper--or carve

Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY peg leg stool 7 15/16" t x 5In considering how to explain why this c. 1960s 70s photo badge struck me, it occurred to me that driver's licenses and employee badges are a bit like modern portrait miniatures, and perhaps the most enduring portraits of ourselves most of us have. And, in thinking about the history and future of factory labor in this country, the employee badge of young male worker at the Allegheny Steel Company c. late 1960s early 70s feels pretty poignant. (He