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Old 29-10-17, 05:47 PM
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Hi all, had this item in my watch list on eBay 172940055426 I was just wondering why it sold for well over £200, can't be the cap badges, are the titles that rare

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Old 29-10-17, 07:05 PM
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Hi all, had this item in my watch list on eBay 172940055426 I was just wondering why it sold for well over £200, can't be the cap badges, are the titles that rare

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Gerard
Possibly a digit as the number does not work for me.

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Old 29-10-17, 07:10 PM
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Hi all, had this item in my watch list on eBay 172940055426 I was just wondering why it sold for well over £200, can't be the cap badges, are the titles that rare

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Gerard
No problem here... linked straight through for me.

I can only imagine the 2nd Bn cloth title is ultra-rare, Gerard. A bit steep for me, though I was watching with interest.

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Old 29-10-17, 07:30 PM
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Nothing, not even in advanced search world wide.
Annoying now.

Marc

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Got it, what a palaver that was. Nice badges.

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Old 29-10-17, 08:20 PM
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I think once you could search for an item number and if within 3 months of sale the item page would show- now you have to be sure to search as a completed listing. Regards, Paul.
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Nothing for me either.

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Old 29-10-17, 08:25 PM
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-W...YAAOSwZtlZ7HsM
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Old 30-10-17, 05:35 AM
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Another I was watching that reached giddy heights:

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Old 30-10-17, 06:44 AM
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I viewed that on phone, so not the best way to try to determine if genuine - is it a newly developed or scanned photo?
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I viewed that on phone, so not the best way to try to determine if genuine - is it a newly developed or scanned photo?
The listing states 'postcard unposted', so I'd like to think not. There doesn't seem to have been any image available of the rear, though I'd assume that anybody willing to bid to such a level would possibly have requested further pictures.

It does seem to be in remarkably good nick. Congrats to the winning bidder though

Would the picture be of Pte. William Buckingham, perhaps? VC for 'conspicuous acts of bravery and devotion to duty in rescuing and rendering aid to the wounded whilst exposed to heavy fire, especially at Neuve-Chapelle on 10th and 12th March 1915' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buckingham

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Maybe who ever owns the VC was desperate for a picture of the recipient?
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It is Buckingham, the photo is shown here:

https://www.royalleicestershireregim...lliam-henry-vc

Looks like his VC may be at the regimental museum:

http://www.vconline.org.uk/william-b...-vc/4586008527

Its interesting to see that at one point he was engaged in recruiting which presumably explains the favours worn on his cap in one photo of him.

Maybe whoever owns the VC can afford to pay that kind of money for a modern copy of a photo that pops up on a few sites on the web where any unscrupulous pauper can filch a copy. Or maybe the VC came with the photo.(I am open to correction re. the item sold actually having dry ink, it could well be far older than it appears on my screens).
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Old 30-10-17, 08:56 PM
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Hi,

Has this post been accidentally placed in the Australian section ?

If so, can those in charge please move it to it's appropriate location in the British Military Insignia section.

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