Oakland Police Sergeant #94.  Engraved  on obverse:  C. L. Hemphill Oakland, CAL Oct 6, 1906.  Sterling silver with hand engraving and hard fired blue enamel.

Oakland Police Sergeant #74.  Presentation on reverse:  Presented to Marcus Nelson Oct. 1, 1945 By Members of the Camaraderie.  Sterling silver with hand engraving and hard fired enamel.

Oakland Tribune article Feb. 9, 1922.

Oakland Police Sergeant #225 issued to W. H. Haldeman who was appointed to the force 3-15-16.  Sterling silver, hand engraved with hard fired enamel lettering.

Oakland Police Sergeant #224 issued to C.T. Anderson who was appointed to the force 3-15-16.  Sterling silver, hand engraved with hard fired enamel lettering.

Oakland Police Sergeant #169.  Presentation on obverse:  Presented to Eric Gustavson  Feb. 1, 1947 By Members of the Camaraderie.  Sterling silver with hand engraving and hard fired black enamel.

Oakland Police Inspector #244, worn by Inspector Clyde Archibald Crosswell who was appointed 12-1-22.  Sterling silver, hand engraved with hard fired enamel lettering.

Sergeant Oakland Police #34. Sterling silver, hand engraved.  Notice the numbers were changed. Circa 1870.

Matron Oakland Police #214 issued to Mrs. A.M. Shefoff who was appointed Matron 4-2-20. Sterling silver, hard fired enamel lettering. Hallmarked California.

Oakland Police Officer Marcus Nelson

Oakland Police Officer #224 issued to C.T. Anderson who was appointed to the force 3-15-16. 

Oakland Police Officer #169  Eric Gustavson 

Mrs. A.M. Shefoff who was appointed Matron
4-2-20.   This image was taken January 24, 1949.

Allen  A. Teir wore badge 128 and was appointed to the force on  4-25-1927.  Born in Finland in 1902, he died in Seattle in 1954.

Oakland Police Inspector badge #29 worn by Lucien M. Jewell who was born 5-10-1898 and was appointed to the department on 5-18-1921.  By 1925 he was listed as Inspector.  He spent 26 years on the job and retired in March of 1947.

Department photo of Inspector Jewell taken May 17, 1943.

Allen  A. Teir when he was a motorman.

This sterling silver hand engraved Inspector badge #17 was worn by W. F. Woods who was appointed 10-13-1898.
 

Michael Joseph O'Reilly wore badge #85.  He was born in Kilkenny Ireland in April 1,1877.  Died Aug 14, 1943 in Alameda.  He was first appointed to the OPD October 10, 1906.  In 1919 he was promoted to the rank of Corporal.
The 1921 City Directory lists him as a Corporal and the 1922 Directory as a Sergeant.

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