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- OBJECT TYPE
- uniform
- DATE
- 2003
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0252.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Ontario AFFM
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- shoulder flash
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- fabric & embroidery thread
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 8.8 cm
- Width
- 8.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Forestry
- Category
- Fire fighting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Uniform identification badges used by Canadian forest fire fighting personnel, specifically of Ontario. In that province, fire detection & suppression is the responsibility of the Aviation & Forest Fire Management branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources, which provides aviation & forest fire management services (Ref. 2). - Function
-
Identifying patches worn on the uniforms of provincial fire fighting personnel, affixed to a shirt or jacket. - Technical
-
An example of a machine embroidered fabric badge. For centuries embroidery hand been done by hand, but during the industrial revolution mechanization of the process began. Embroidery machines were designed by 1860, combining in a single machine handloom technology with the existing sewing machine technology, the lock-stitch. The automation was refined in the in the 1970s - early 1980s with automatic, electronically controlled custom embroidered machines developed in Japan. Instead of the instructions being coded on a continuous reel of paper or Mylar(r) tape containing x-y coordinate information in Binary, Fortran or other numeric code to control pantograph movement, the information is now digitized on computer disks. These machines also do the work flat instead of vertically which allows automatic colour changes (Ref. 1). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- embroidered white lettering reads "Ontario/ AFFM"
- Missing
- complete
- Finish
- green, orange, yellow, blue, red, white
- Decoration
- embroidered trillium symbol, yellow bird? symbol/ green edging
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Unknown Manufacturer, Badge, circa 2003, Artifact no. 2003.0252, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0252.001/
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