This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/4789 Message Board Post: Historian needs your help to authenticate badge made for U.S. Marshal Jack Bridges from 1869 to 1876, any liveing heirs to William Kassel who was a Jeweler who possible made this badge, I need to speak to family members if still alive, you will go down in History in the Western world and U.S. Marshal serivice in a large story. William Kassel senior may have made a badge out of St. Louis in the period before 1876 I am looking for the dates in which he was working and established in St. Louis and his mark. Historain Lewis Wagner, Tucson Arizona