If you are an Old West enthusiast then definitely you have at least two or three items from this era. An Old West collection may include handcuffs, jail keys, guns or pistols, holsters, hats, clothes, and a lot of badges. Who wouldn’t recognize a shiny Sheriff star badge from many Old West movies? However, there are different kinds of badges that you can collect aside from the Sheriff Badge (pictured left).
If you would like to be a serious collector of badges from the Old West, it is important to know some information about them.
- US Marshal Badge – includes the Marshal Deadwood badge, US Marshal (fancy-the type worn by Wyatt Earp), US Marshal (plain) or Marshal Dodge City (badge worn by Bat Masterson, Ed Masterson, Charlie Bassett and Wyatt Earp)
- Texas Rangers Badge – includes Texas Rangers Company B, Texas Rangers Company D (Frontier Battalion), Texas Rangers Company A (Peso Badge), Special Ranger (Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Association), San Juan Colorado Rangers, California Ranger, Territorial Rangers, Arizona Rangers, and Captain Arizona Rangers.
- Sheriff Badge – includes Lincoln County Sheriff, Sheriff (Star), Sheriff Presidio County, Deputy Sheriff, Deputy Constable, Sheriff (Shield), and Sheriff (Tombstone).
- Agent Badge – includes Pinkerton Detective Agency (a private detective agency that went after Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid among others), Pony Express Messenger (worn by Pony Express riders who carried mail), Railway Express Special Agent, and Indian Police (the type worn by Red Tomahawk who killed Sitting Bull in 1890) among several others.
These are just a few of the Old West Badges also available for purchase online. These badges are high quality replicas that usually come in gift boxes and story cards. They also have mounted pin fasteners with options of placing them in display boxes which are also available from online Old West collections sites.