40 Year Employee Pin – Want to buy

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  • February 16, 2016 at 2:17 am #5705
    huelsingdavid
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      Does anyone have a 40 year pin they could sell?

      Also interested in other interesting employee pins, booster club pins, etc…

      Please send me a private message if you have any available.

      Thanks,
      David

      April 5, 2020 at 2:01 pm #9654
      Bill Pollard
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        Here is the Missouri Pacific magazine article from January 1927, detailing the 40-year pins for the veterans association. Note that from the article, this didn’t indicate retired employees necessarily, but was open to those who had worked for the company for 40 years, many of whom were apparently still employed.

        The “official” 40-year pin from 1927 onward is illustrated with the article, a slightly larger pin with more elaborate border design. I have another Missouri Pacific pin, the same size as the more common Booster Club pins, but missing the “Lines” designation and with a blue background. Could these have been an earlier version of the 40-year pins?

        Bill Pollard

        [attachment=1:8pbk3qam]40-year-pin.jpg[/attachment:8pbk3qam]

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        April 5, 2020 at 5:00 pm #9656
        David Boeschen
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          I have to assume that the change from two lines ‘MISSOURI PACIFIC’ to three lines ‘MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES’ could have happened about 1924 or thereabouts.

          One possibility is that, after the change from the four line ‘MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN’ in about 1917 after the Iron Mountain merger, the buzzsaw was simplified, but after the absorption of the nominally-independent Texas lines it may have been considered a good idea to add the LINES, in the spirit of the then-existing PENNSYLVANIA LINES and others.

          RG7

          April 5, 2020 at 5:03 pm #9657
          David Boeschen
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            David, I have seen a 40-year pin on eBay recently. I don’t know if it sold.

            RG7

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