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Originally Posted by Luke H
The AAC is not a rare badge despite being Airborne. On any given day on eBay you can buy a real one (or 8 in total listed tonight). However I appreciate a genuine theatre made AAC would be scarcer
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Indeed they're not Luke. I'm quite surprised how many are currently on that world famous auction site; I normally see just a couple and they're almost always the more common diestruck type. In a previous post I asked this of the more experienced forum members, "how often do locally made (sandcast) AAC badges come onto the market". Hopefully an answer to that will eventually materialise?.
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Originally Posted by Luke H
I had not seen a genuine Sharpshooters IY for sale for well over a year, perhaps two. Then in 2020 within the space of 6 months I saw 5 come onto the market, 3 appearing within a fortnight! No more have surfaced since and it is now over a year on.
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But again, however scarce those Sharpshooters IY may be, it will have been a regular issue, UK made piece; correct?.
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Originally Posted by Luke H
May I ask since those six how many have you seen since and how long has it been?. Re your man was this their opinion based on six appearing in short order or did they evidence a single seller or spurious source as being responsible?
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I'm afraid you're asking the wrong man, I simply bought mine and asked a friend to ask
his man for an appraisal. It's he who spent so much time recording suspicious activity.
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Originally Posted by Luke H
A few eBayers I know of involved in the sale of cast copies are ‘5555destination’ (or whatever his latest alias is), ‘peterg5733’, ‘pe1ju2’ and ‘int.militaria’. It should be noted the last three do state their wares are not original in the descriptions. I’m yet to see an AAC amongst their offerings.
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Interesting; I do have 'pe1ju2' in my list of sellers excluded from ebay search results. I tried without success last night to trace the source of these; even going as far as adding "india" and "china" to my search terms on google. I don't really believe that's where they've originated from though; more likely some random bloke working off his kitchen table in a leafy suburb, "somewhere in England"
I'm sure one day, the truth will out!