Welcome to Raymond Sherrard's Police Insignia website!

Collectors of law enforcement insignia are increasingly using the Internet, so I decided to get with it too.

In 2006, I purchased the Orval Davis collection from his estate and began planning to sell or trade off most of it, hence this site.

This became a much bigger project than I envisioned to say the least. As a collector myself, I would want to view the face and reverse of any badge before I bought it, so those dual images are shown for each badge.

To make your search easier, and to save time, the site is separated into albums, by state or category.

As a collector, I always look for provenance, and Chief Davis maintained detailed badge logs and kept copies of correspondence about the badges he received. It is rare to find this type of documentation (makes me wish that I had kept better records!) Almost all of the badges came directly from the Department, from the Chief or Sheriff, and nearly all have a badge log entry.

Caveat - Nearly all of the badges shown on the site have been traded off or sold, and the list sometimes changes daily. I have been concentrating on the California badges, with a few surrounding states and I have also traded off some of the badges shown for badges I can use in my own collection. I collect federal badges, the older the better, and am happy to trade any of these badges for items I can use. I have four specialties, IRS, Federal Prohibition, Federal Narcotics, and the Intelligence Community, although I am interested in anything federal.

I decided to leave all of the images on the site, so that collectors could see them for their own reference purposes.

Badge List Coming Soon. I will be placing my badge list on the site early next year, and will be trading and selling off much of my collection in order to pay for upcoming insignia reference books.

After a long delay, I have finally completed this new listing of the federal patches I have available for trade or sale.

I am always attempting to obtain new federal patches for the next federal patch book, and for my own collection, so I am happy to trade for any US federal patch I can use.

If you don't have any traders, I will sell you patches, in order to help finance the next book in the series of patch books.

There are two albums that were added into this website. One ablum contains a list of federal patches from The Encyclopedia of Federal Law Enforcement Patches, and the other contains patches not shown in the book (but which will be in the next one). See the buttons shown at the top of this website "Encyclopedia Patches" and "Non-Encyclopedia Patches."

Under the album with the "Encyclopedia Patches," I have listed more than 4200 patches in the book and they are shown by the "Book Number." Please email me with trade offers or a request for the estimated fair market value of a particular patch.

The remaining "Non-Encyclopedia Patches" are laser copies of the patches not shown in the book. I have also written the estimated fair market value next to each image. However, if your not able to trade and cannot read that value then just email me for clarification.

TAXES - if you have a California address, I must add 7.75% California State Sales Tax to the amount of the order (if you are buying and not trading this if for California addresses only).

SHIPPING - if you are buying, I can shp any way you like. US Postal Service is generally the least expensive. I highly recommend insurance for purchases, as I cannot be responsible otherwise. You pay only what I am charged for shipping / insurance.

TRADES - we each pay our own shipping.

PAYMENT - if you are buying and not trading, I can accept personal checks (must clear), or cashiers checks or money orders. I can also accept Visa or Mastercard or Paypal, although there is a 3% processing fee (that is what they charge me to process them).

REPROS - I do not knowingly sell reproductions patches, unless I have identified them as such, as priced them accordingly. Should I ever sell or trade you any patch that turns out to be a repro, I will cheerfully take it back, no problem. In return, I ask that you do the same.

Thank you

Raymond Sherrard
RHS Enterprises
POB 5779
Garden Grove, CA 92846-0779
714 840 4388

rhsenterprises@earthlink.net





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