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Originally Posted by Alan O
Mine cost £10 which is a fair price. Similair Kings variants go for that price and even adding a premium for the Regualr bn bespoke design I could not ask £55 and keep a straight face. About £20 would be the upper limit. There is a 'bubble' growing here and soon enough any specialist collector will have one at which point the price must drop as run of the mill collectors will buy one type of Kings badge for £6 and stick to one! the same is happening with 1916 economy prices.
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I only got one recently after a long time of looking and even that has a cut down shank. It's thanks to this forum and in the case of this badge to Peter and Julian that most of us were aware that this is not a makers variation of the post 1926 badge but a genuine earlier 'unapproved' pattern.
Unfortunately not only collectors are members but dealers too.
Pre-forum days you'd probably have picked this one up for a fiver