If  you look carefully among the hundreds of troop plaques decorating the Camp Hinds dining hall you will see a small number of round discs portraying many of the merit badges available to Scouts in the thirties and forties.

These plaques were made in the craft shop where Uncle Frank Bailey taught many Scouts the arts of woodcarving and painting and provided some decoration for the dining hall. These were the only dining hall decorations until troop plaques were introduced in 1958.

We can be sure that Uncle Frank gave a lot of guidance in the carving of these plaques, perhaps lending a hand in the trickier areas.  Then the boys painted the design on each one, most of which in those days were in drab colors.  The paint used was water-based tempera which was then covered with a coating of shellac to waterproof them.
 

These three plaques, stored in the Bailey craftshop for many years, were probably on display in the original shop as a demonstration of the steps in creating them.  They are the Leatherwork, Basketry, and Metalwork merit badges, which along with Painting and Woodcarving (skills used in creating the plaques) were the three badges most often taught in the shop.