First Design of Each Merit Badge

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Each merit badge pictured below is the first design issued for the merit badge title
  • Aerodynamics 1942
    Product Id: 1st-Aerody-C8
    Collector Rating: 5
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned: 1942
    • Issued: 274
    • Embroidery Thread: Cotton
    • Base Cloth: Heavyweight Tan
    • Back: Starched white Lockstitch
    • Design: White wing with air currents
  • Aeronautics 1942
    Product Id: 1st-Aerona-C8
    Collector Rating: 5
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1942
    • Issued: 1540
    • Embroidery Thread: Cotton
    • Base Cloth: Heavyweight Tan
    • Back: Starched white Lockstitch
    • Design: White single prop plane
  • Agriculture 1912
    Product Id: 1st-Agricu-AH1
    Collector Rating: 10
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1912
    • Issued: 6
    • Cloth: Heavyweight tan
    • Embroidery: Silk continuous
    • Border: Counterclockwise, round & dense
    • Back: Brown imprint
    • Design: Unconfirmed;Short perpendicular buckhead at end of beam, handles close together with crossbar, point where share and moldboard meet at bottom
  • Airplane Design 1942
    Product Id: 1st-AirDes-C8
    Collector Rating: 5
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1942
    • Issued: 108
    • Embroidery Thread: Cotton
    • Base Cloth: Heavyweight Tan
    • Back: Starched white Lockstitch
    • Design: White autogyro
  • Airplane Structure 1942
    Product Id: 1st-AirStr-C8
    Collector Rating: 5
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1942
    • Issued: 220
    • Embroidery Thread: Cotton
    • Base Cloth: Heavyweight Tan
    • Back: Starched white Lockstitch
    • Design: White wing skeleton
  • American Business 1967
    Product Id: 1st-AmeBus-G
    Collector Rating: 1
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1967
    • Issued: 2107
    • Embroidery Thread: Cotton
    • Back: Starched cloth
    • Design: Line chart
  • American Cultures 1979
    Product Id: 1st-AmeCul-H2
    Collector Rating: 1
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1979
    • Issued: 161
    • Embroidery Thread: Cotton
    • Back: Clear waffle plastic with green inside locking thread
    • Design: Four faces and red, white, blue shield
  • Angling 1913
    Product Id: 1st-Anglin-AH1
    Collector Rating: 10
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1913
    • Issued: 1
    • Cloth: Heavyweight tan
    • Embroidery: Silk continuous hand guided
    • Border: Clockwise, round & dense
    • Back: Brown imprint
    • Design: Long pointed spineless top fin, spineless bottom fin, has eye
  • Animal Industry 1928
    Product Id: 1st-AniInd-AT1
    Collector Rating: 1
    Description:
    • 1st Year Earned Year: 1928
    • Issued: 873
    • Cloth: Heavyweight tan
    • Embroidery: Silk continuous tape guided
    • Border: Clockwise, round & dense
    • Back: Black imprint
    • Design: Horse head with bridle