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Originally Posted by pukman
A photo from one of the premier NZ badge collections in the country ,Laurie Osborne A.K.A ''Trivet'' ,who I had the good fortune to see this collection .
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As I recall correctly, the two holes just above the A/3 and B/3 badges used to be occupied by a 2nd Pattern Triple Fern badge, it seems he must have sold one of his 3rd Pattern Triple Fern badge (# 1) and moved the 2nd Pattern Triple Fern badge up to balance things out.
Interesting to note is apart from the numerals, it seems that Laurie’s 1st & 2nd Pattern Triple Fern badges would have been the only badges that would have been worn by NZ Reinforcements, all the rest of Laurie’s reinforcement badges that are pictured would have mostly been made for the collectors/museum market and a small minority would have possibly been worn as patriotic badges.