View Single Post
  #26  
Old 15-04-21, 07:24 PM
Sonofacqms's Avatar
Sonofacqms Sonofacqms is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 6,786
Cool Fakes in glass cases

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan O View Post
Not everything in museums is original unfortunately and those badges are both not of a design I would recognise as WW1. There was not an official all brass KOSB badge authorised for production.

There are a number of DDay museums in Normandy with donations of badges which are not contemporary and these 2 are probably the same in my opinion. Just my view but I would not have them in my WW1 collection.
Unfortunately many people involved in museums are not badge experts, some years ago I visited the Suffolk museum at Bury St. Edmund's and asked to see the badges, I was taken to a room with the wall covered in frames of badges, very few Suffolk Regiment badges and many fakes.

When I asked the curator why they had lots of other Regiments badges I was told they were donated by a lady whose late husband collected them.

Tactfully I asked to see the Suffolk badges and was then led to another room.

This is the future without knowledgeable people . . !

Rob

Last edited by Sonofacqms; 15-04-21 at 07:45 PM.
Reply With Quote