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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
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New arrival - Eritrea Prison Service shoulder title
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Chacal
Thank you Steve and Stephen, I've been lucky the...
Thank you Steve and Stephen, I've been lucky the last couple of months with BMA-related badges and photos. :)
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
25-01-21, 02:39 PM
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New arrival - Eritrea Prison Service shoulder title
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Chacal
Thank you Dave - like the cap badge it came from...
Thank you Dave - like the cap badge it came from Sweden of all places.
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
25-01-21, 01:26 PM
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New arrival - Eritrea Prison Service shoulder title
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New arrival - Eritrea Prison Service shoulder title
This new addition arrived this morning: an Eritrea Prison Service shoulder title stamped from thin white metal sheet with soldered wire lugs (one absent), I was previously unaware that this existed....
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It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification
22-01-21, 09:21 PM
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RCAF 601 Squadron?? Air direction?
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Chacal
Cars are not really my thing but the radiator...
Cars are not really my thing but the radiator badge looks (to me) as the winged "B" of Bentley.
Graham
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General Topics.
12-01-21, 08:42 PM
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Straighten plastic economy badges
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Chacal
I used to have a plastic Military Police cap...
I used to have a plastic Military Police cap badge which had been curved to fit the front of the SD cap, presumably using the hot water method described, so it is possible - although that was with a...
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
08-01-21, 09:32 PM
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Tripolitania Police
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Chacal
Tripolitania Police
Good evening
Just moved my Tripolitania Police collection into a new display case (in time they will be updated with proper labels).
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
08-01-21, 09:30 PM
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Somalia Gendarmerie
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Chacal
Thank you Sean. Graham
Thank you Sean.
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
08-01-21, 09:29 PM
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Eritrea Police/Prisons
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Chacal
Sean & Dave Thank you for your comments....
Sean & Dave
Thank you for your comments. With the amount of photographic and printed material I've recently acquired I think it won't be long before I invest in larger cases.
All the best
...
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The Home Front
08-01-21, 06:16 PM
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Civil Defence Rescue Dogs 1944
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Chacal
To my eyes it looks like "LIGHT RESCUE", would...
To my eyes it looks like "LIGHT RESCUE", would that make sense?
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
07-01-21, 09:56 PM
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Eritrea Police/Prisons
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Chacal
Eritrea Police/Prisons
Good evening
A few additions to my Eritrea Police/Prisons collection made it necessary to move it to a new display case (in time they will be updated with proper labels).
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
07-01-21, 09:54 PM
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Somalia Gendarmerie
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Chacal
Thank you Dave :).
Thank you Dave :).
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
07-01-21, 07:36 PM
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Somalia Gendarmerie
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Chacal
Somalia Gendarmerie
Good evening
I've just received a batch of 40 original WWII photographs of the Somalia Gendarmerie (SG), including this one of a Nyasa CSM wearing a bush hat with the SG badge mounted on the...
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The Classifieds: Sales and Wanted
06-01-21, 09:01 PM
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Wanted - British Frontier Service [West Germany] uniform buttons
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Wanted - British Frontier Service [West Germany] uniform buttons
I am still looking for small size (c.18mm) uniform buttons worn by the British Frontier Service in West Germany prior to the reunification of Germany (see attached).
Graham
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It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification
05-01-21, 03:32 PM
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Shoulder title mystery
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Chacal
I agree the second last letter is "S" but the...
I agree the second last letter is "S" but the last looks (to me) like a "B", so "KOSB"? Did they wear such titles?
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
04-01-21, 07:06 PM
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DEFCON LONDON maker’s back-mark on Kenya Prisons cap badge
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Chacal
Thank you Dave, yes, I'm surviving up here but...
Thank you Dave, yes, I'm surviving up here but not holding my breath re. swap meets in the foreseeable future.
All the best
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
04-01-21, 02:54 PM
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DEFCON LONDON maker’s back-mark on Kenya Prisons cap badge
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Chacal
I agree Dave - I meant to add supplier/retailer...
I agree Dave - I meant to add supplier/retailer but forgot.
All the best
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
04-01-21, 12:45 PM
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DEFCON LONDON maker’s back-mark on Kenya Prisons cap badge
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Chacal
DEFCON LONDON maker’s back-mark on Kenya Prisons cap badge
Good afternoon
This is primarily for those members interested in the minutiae of maker’s back-marks on badges etc.: I recently received this Kenya Prisons Service chromed cast metal cap badge...
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General Topics.
25-12-20, 08:44 AM
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Merry Christmas
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Chacal
Happy Christmas to all Forum members and their...
Happy Christmas to all Forum members and their families, and best wishes for a hopefully better 2021.
Graham
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General Topics.
03-12-20, 04:38 PM
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EVERYONE Your best finds of 2020 !! Badges or Militaria !!!!
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Chacal
Nice finds gents, well done. :) Mine is...
Nice finds gents, well done. :)
Mine is definitely this Eritrean Prison Service cap badge in brass on a deep red backing with contemporary stitching presumably compensating for the loss of the...
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General Topics.
27-11-20, 07:22 AM
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Whats the one badge / medal that you have always wanted but never have got?
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Chacal
Good morning Top of my ‘Wants’ for a few...
Good morning
Top of my ‘Wants’ for a few years is the “U.S. Naval Support Forces Antarctica Security” shoulder patch used in the 1950s.
Graham
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
19-11-20, 07:56 PM
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Help translating Cyrenaica Police collar numbers from Eastern Arabic
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Chacal
Help translating Cyrenaica Police collar numbers from Eastern Arabic
Good evening
I’ve just picked up these two photos of members of the Cyrenaica Police (Gendarmerie?) dated to around Libyan independence in 1951, can anyone please help with translating the Eastern...
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
15-11-20, 06:34 PM
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Somalia Gendarmerie headdress flash
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Chacal
Somalia Gendarmerie headdress flash
Does anyone have an example of the cloth flash worn on bush hats and the “turbans” of the rank-and-file of the Somalia Gendarmerie they would be willing to share an image of, as I’ve not yet seen one...
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Other Army Departments and Corps Badges
14-11-20, 01:11 PM
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Women's Home Guard Auxiliary
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Chacal
Hi Jerry "Provisional Patent"? ...
Hi Jerry
"Provisional Patent"?
Graham
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Civilian Services: Police, Prison Service, Fire Brigade, Merchant Navy, etc.
14-11-20, 10:24 AM
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What is your most wanted Prison badge??
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Chacal
Eritrean Prison Service cap badge
Just updating with an Eritrean Prison Service cap badge that dropped through the letterbox a short time ago, in brass on a deep red backing with contemporary stitching presumably compensating for the...
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Colonial Police and Paramilitary Badges
14-11-20, 10:20 AM
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New arrival - Eritrean Prison Service cap badge
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133
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Chacal
New arrival - Eritrean Prison Service cap badge
New arrival dropped through the letterbox a short time ago: Eritrean Prison Service cap badge in brass on a deep red backing with contemporary stitching presumably compensating for the loss of the...
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