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"I believe you have all of them. Thanks for sharing my friend."

A NICE bunch of patches,, but not quite all of them. Get Hank's book & you can see some others. He did an excellent job of putting together a detailed account of most of them.

I did a display many years ago called "Patches, Pins & Decals" and I still was missing a few.

And yes,, there are many "non-factory authorized" patches out there. Some are meant to look like factory,, and some are just foreign counterfeit types.

You still have an impressive bunch there.

I do have Hank's book and he did a good job of putting info together on them. Other than it there's limited information out there, but that's what collecting is about. I know I can't compete with you Ty, you've got a few winners stashed in the patch door.
Bennett

I do have a few that aren't shown in your pics. And sadly,, I know of at least (2) other patches that I don't have,, but the owner of them won't part with them. (prototype 1976 Liberty ones,,, different colored edges.)

But you do have a couple of very hard to get ones. The Pistols & Revolvers one, as well as the Fire Brigade one.

And,, there is also a very early patch for the RENE.

Now,, where did I store my extra patches,,,???

Yeah the "Ruger News Exchange" patch is one of the elusive ones. Do you know how many were made? Perhaps Chad remembers. I don’t think you can have all of anything Ruger, if so you'd be the only collector. As you know the fun is in the hunt.
Bennett

This may be the earliest official brassard (patch) for Sturm, Ruger & Co. Employees attending trade shows like the annual NRA meetings would have one of these attached to their jacket,

That is a dandy !!
I like the neck feather & eye detail stitching.
Is the bulk of the stitching gold ?

Terry

The stitching is a gold thread. The back is dark cloth. Front & back are cloth, I believe over hard plastic.

Very cool Don, thanks for sharing.
Bennett

Good one Don,
That's one of the very few patches I do not have,,,, yet,,,,!!!!!!!!!

This is what they were using a few years ago. I'm not sure what they (Ruger employees) have now for an ID.