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#1
28-09-17, 03:03 PM
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bakelite badge
Good afternoon,
I have just received this badge, in bakelite I think. Could you help me to identify it (RA, RE), confirm the material and date it ? Thank you 
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#2
28-09-17, 03:07 PM
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2è guerre mondiale, usually used on FSC and beret by RA, it has 7 flames.Also,not made of bakelite but cellulose acetate.
Jo
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#3
28-09-17, 03:18 PM
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Anjou. Not Bakalite, which is a hard brittle material (think of old 1950's radios).
Badges were made of a thermos setting plastic, but the correct definition escapes me. Someone will know.
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#4
28-09-17, 03:28 PM
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Contracts dates 10th February 1942 - 2nd November 1945.
666.232 pairs made, 491,232 pairs by that manufacturer. (I wonder where the other 1332463 of those badges are?)
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#5
28-09-17, 03:29 PM
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Leigh beat me by a minute........
During the 2nd WW,from 10.02.42 to 02.11.45, 666,232 pairs were made of the grenade collar badges by Fraser & Glass 175,000 and Alfred Stanley & Sons Ltd.491,232. Jo
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28-09-17, 03:41 PM
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I got the info from Mr Cotton's article but didn't credit him as I can't remember what his first name is (Mark?), the magazine it was published in (Militaria Mag?) or when (1980's?)
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#7
28-09-17, 03:52 PM
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Quote:
Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Last edited by Voltigeur; 28-09-17 at 03:59 PM.
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28-09-17, 04:27 PM
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Thank you all for these very precise identification and informations.
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