1940s Canadian Garrison Battalion Badges
 

Fantastic badges, but check out the prices!! I initially thought that the seller was asking $5,500 for the lot. Wow.

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collecti...ationFlag=true

Walt

Last one I saw for sale was under $3000....

They look good, finding a matched set of collars is nice, but the price, wow.

Mike

Canadian Garrison Battalion Officer's Cap Badge
 

Last one I saw, sold in Ontario three years ago for $8000 Canadian...now there's one at Arctic Medals for $10,000...WOO HOO!

Pretty sure I'm going to pass on adding that one to my collection - Yep, I'm sure!!! I doubt my whole collection is worth that much!

Terry

It's official,

The Canadian Garrison Battalion Officer's badge sold this last week from a Calgary dealer, for over $10,000 Canadian.

The value of our "military ephemera" collections keep increasing, as does the cost of gasoline, cars, houses and food.

That badge - were it to be re-sold any time soon - would be valued at around $12,000.00

As a collector of WWII Allied insignia, I have to say the most expensive badges I have acquired to date were both Canadian. But then both were for obscure sought after units, so I can live with it!

Cheers……John

Even scarcer is the plastic Garrison Battalion other ranks' badges.

Plastic Garrison Badge
 

Mike McMahon (Arctic Medals) has one for sale on his web site, and I have just noticed that Bosley's has one for sale in their on-line auction on the 27th Sep (Lot 164, Estimate £400-£600 + commission).

As an aside, there is quite a large amount of Canadian badges in Bosley's sale, but unfortunately none that I am after. However, I'm sure this sale will whet the appetites of some keen post WW1 Canadian collectors!!

Bosleys Sale of Plastic Garrison Badge
 

I see this badge sold for £700, or $1,160Cdn. Add the commission at 26.4% and that'll take the cost before P&P to £884.8 or $1,466Cdn. That's the scarcity of this badge :eek

On the other hand there were a number of bargains (IMHO) to be had for any Canadian collectors who were following the sale. 'Swings and roundabouts'.