Chimney Sweep License Button

Photo by woody1778a

Here’s a really odd button. It almost looks like one of one of the vintage employee ID buttons we posted about last week. That is, until you read the year. Here’s what the owner of the button has to say:

I really like this “human license plate” pinback badge. I though chimney sweeps disappeared with the Victorian age. I see they are still and alive and practising their trade in Winnipeg Manitoba at the end of the 20th Century. This has to be the weirdest license type I own.