Identification 1943 badge US

Somebody is trying to sell this to me as an authentic US identification badge 1943. There is a name on it and 1943. An American flag on the other side.

The real deal? Value? Thanks!

 

Better pix would help, both sides. Looks to me like one of the tokens you get from a coin-operated machine, you select the text you want one letter at a time, and pull a lever to get it stamped.

 

I see. Unfortunately, I have no better picture. Jean Pierre Thooft 19-04-1943 is stamped on the badge.

Bit clearer here, but not sure if Ebay links are allowed.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/anc-Med-iden...881443?hash=item48998e3e63:g:9K4AAOSwWxNYqhgi

 

Please always use the full image button.

 

Looks like that to me though who's to say one of those machines wasn't employed for this use.

 

In the US it would be a novelty key ring. Many carnivals had a machine making these. Unless the named person has some note and you could prove it was actually made for them it has little to no value.

 

Hi,
I have to agree with the crowd. I have several around here in a box.
greg

 

OK thanks. Case solved.

 

thanks for posting that token......i got one in NY when I was a lad.
brought back memories...

 

I remember there was a vending machine that dispensed those things. Who knows how it worked, but it was essentially some kind of typecaster. I think you set a dial(s?) to compose the text you wanted, and it would dispense one of those medals with the lettering you selected. I remember the shape so well.

My recollection is that I got one of those medals with my name on it from one of those machines at a train station where we had gone to meet my grandparents, which would have been in the mid-1950s.

 

I agree. When I was a kid and went to the small town fair, there was a machine that punched these out for 10 cents. You chose the wording. Pretty cool for us rubes back then.

 

The patent date is old, but these were still around at least through the eighties.

 

I made something very similar to that at a vending machine at Disneyland in the 1970s. The machine was by the castle and later was removed.

 

I've had those too.
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I'm looking for a good luck one with a penny in the center from Uncle Milty's Amusement Park in Bayonne, NJ.

 

OMG....I had those with the penny in the middle....but not from Uncle Milty's!!!! But I can see why you want it from THERE....

 

I'm far from my computer but when I get back to it...if I remember...I'll post a photo of the one I lost.
I used to go there a lot when I was little.
Not minutes ago I was speaking to some folks who lived on Staten Island and used to go there too!!!
Whoooooooo...,

 

Gosh, I hadn't thought of it in years, but I have one with a penny center that I think was from Benson's Wild Animal Farm in Hudson, NH from the late 50s.

 

I've never seen such a machine until last week. In a small shopping street between the marketplace and Menin gate, a place filled with shops for the, mostly British, tourists in Ypres.

 

I've been on that street. My son was just in Ypres at the end of April. I know what you mean about the tourist shops.