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Continental (?) Fouled Anchor Navy Cap Badge
Ditto: a possibly continental (?) Fouled Anchor Navy cap badge that has come with a small lot of WW2 badges. Not even sure is military or civil... Any hints, gents?
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French, I believe
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That's what I was thinking - for the sun helmet?
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The plastic sun helmet badge is slightly different in detail.
Rgds, Thomas. |
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I was thinking of an earlier than plastic + was it not produced in brass?
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I suppose it was made in metal before the plastic version, However the grist of my post is that earlier I did hesitate identifying it as French due to those minor differences. The plastic badge has the stock curved upwards and the cord is curved differently.
Rgds, Thomas. |
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Not a very helpful photo as it merely shows that the badge in question is not the one used on the French M26 helmet & variously identified as French Colonial troops or French Marines.
I post it simply because I dug it out of my collection to check. |
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For what it's worth, my version.
Thin brass, once silvered. Brooch pin. 43mm long. At back: 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA' GTB |
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Odd, with Czechoslovakia being landlocked. And English spelling instead of Chech?
Rgds, Thomas. |
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Thomas,
Google Czechoslovakian Naval Forces. Actually, the whole back inscription running up the anchor is 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA No.308' GTB |
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As an Airforce and later, a "Gunner" type, I realize I'm sticking my neck out here. Does the first post actually show a "fouled" anchor? I see the anchor laid ON the rope, not as in the other posts, "fouled" by the rope. Too picky? Best regards, D.J.
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Good point, I wonder if the arrangement is known by a different term?
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I would suppose that an anchor with rope or chain entangled is a 'fouled' anchor, with chain or rope hanging freely is an 'unfouled' anchor, and lacking a chain or rope is simply an anchor
GTB |
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So the anchor in question is actually an "unfouled anchor", rather than a fouled anchor.
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