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[2747andy]

Originally Posted by Mike

my version, which I believe is ok (ducks for cover)
looks the same as above ebay listed example.



mine's quite convex, which you can't tell from the pic.

Mike,
looks like John Merrick was holding the Saltire for St Andy on this one! I've seen much better looking RH SNCO badges.

Andy

[Mike]

Or it looks like a monkey poking his tongue out

[Mike]

here's the same badge in natural daylight (artificial - fluorescent light - for the one above)






monkey-heed (excuse my geordie accent):





St Andrew should have a beard. I think I can see what they were getting at here





the man himself from a pair of early collars:




Stephen Fry is defeated by a Newcastle Accent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRkkVQ6OSE

[Mike]

Here's the centre of an ORs - absolutely genuine - came from the family of the owner with lots of his other WW1 stuff.


not much better. looks like St Andrew's wearing a crash helmet.

[Bren39]

Looks more like Boris Karloff in the The Mummy to me

Originally Posted by Mike

Here's the centre of an ORs - absolutely genuine - came from the family of the owner with lots of his other WW1 stuff.


not much better. looks like St Andrew's wearing a crash helmet.

[Old Smelly]

Originally Posted by 2747andy

Mike,
I've seen much better looking RH SNCO badges.

Andy

The badges might look better but not the actual SNCOs
Lee

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Old Smelly

The badges might look better but not the actual SNCOs
Lee

Got a picture of the better badge anyone?

[wright241]

This is an officers version where he seems to have a more pointed beard.
Will try and get a close up and post it tomorrow.
http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ictureid=11133

[Mike]

Does yours have the centre oval opening at the back?

[Mike]

Badges in 3D

what you do is cross your eyes slightly (focus on a point in front of your monitor) - a third merged image should appear in the middle in 3D (each photo is from a slightly different angle).

lots of "3d without glasses" on youtube if you need more practice.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by wright241

This is an officers version where he seems to have a more pointed beard.
Will try and get a close up and post it tomorrow.
http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ictureid=11133

Don't know how many versions of this badge exist but the one Bloomer shows which is closest to yours has the ends of the scrolls folded around. His example is a S&G Version. He doesn't show an exact match to yours.

[fougasse1940]

lots of "3d without glasses" on youtube if you need more practice.

And anaglyph 3D (red lens: left eye, green lens: right eye) on the forum for those with glasses.

Rgds,
fougasse1940.

[Malcolm Davey]

Heres mine

Malc

[Mike]

Nice Malc.

If I was a gambling man I would say the cast badges are somewhere pre or post WW1 (02-15/19-37) and the die struck ones WW1 issue. Alternative explanation: it's a copy, and I'm a wishful thinker.

Where are the lifelong BW collectors?


someone had faith (or ignorance) in that ebay example

[Mike]

And anaglyph 3D (red lens: left eye, green lens: right eye) on the forum for those with glasses.

Rgds,
fougasse1940.

I could see a use for these 3D images in the badge collecting world if they weren't so fiddly to produce. but now 3D cameras are coming out, in a few years all we may look at on here is 3d images?