Wolf-Brown, N.S. Meyer, Inc., Vanguard Industries, Inc., and Ira Green all competed in the same business—manufacturing and selling medals, patches and military insignia for people serving in the United States armed forces, National Guard and local fire and police forces. Of the three, N.S. Meyer was the oldest—it had been in continuous operation since 1868.
Wolf-Brown, as
well as N.S. Meyers, had a multi-page color chart Pamplet with
generic
ribbons made up for their salesman to use and the ribbons on the WB
charts
were numbered from 3001-8016,
not all #'s were shown and there is still discussion if all the #'s
were
used. The current WB/Vanguard #'ed charts
are at: https://www.vanguardmil.com/pages/vanguard-color-ribbon-chart,
as of 10/01/2017.
Thus a number
of Organizations could have used the same #'ed ribbon for a variety of
uses.
Greg Ogletree
wrote a book-1988- on National Guard Medals/Ribbons and he created a
number
system starting with
001-Wash.
D.C. N.G. D.S.M and ending with 585-Massachusetts
N.G. Volunteer Militia 3rd C. Marksman-Tp2 & 3
There are some
number's after the 585
and there is still discussion on who made them up, etc.
GRACO was a
Texas
company, a large Medal/Ribbon, etc. suppiler and they created number's
starting with
1001
and up to 1188
as of 02/2009 that I am aware of .
GRACO had a
number
of charts at: http://www.gracoind.com/pss/ribbons.htm-
as
of 10/01/2017, no longer a valid link
starting with
#1 [Ogletree NG #] up thru 1193 [their #]
GRACO was bought out and then starting with
#1 [Ogletree NG #] up thru 1193 [their #] in their Ribbon charts,
as they made many NG Medals/ribbons and later added some of the
under 1000 ribbons,
GRACO is now part of Ira Green, 2017