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Hi Dennis-- This Company the Motometer Co, Inc of Long Island City, N.Y. was not awarded an E award and pin in WW2. The E award was first awarded by Teddy Roosevelt as Sec Navy. It was a Navy award and stayed that way until FDR had the Sec Navy Frank Knox award a Bureau of Ordnance Navy E award and pin in July 1941 to civilian firms that had performed outstandingly on their Navy Contracts. By late Aug and early Sept 1941 the remainder of the Navy wanted a pin and the All Navy Round pin was created and awarded to non Bureau of Ordnance components. In the spring of 1942 the War Dept and the Navy Dept created the Army-Navy Production Award and that is the one with the block E in the center and the RWB swallow tail ribbon. Your E is a different font and a different color. Hope this helps. Your pin is a great example of Bastion Bros work from the period. By the way what is the diameter of your pin and have you ever had it tested for its metal conent? Richard