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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
Now you've said it, I'll own up, black patch looks new, I don't like the rhino, looks like one of those flimsy "handkerchief" type fabrics with thin print, new looking but with shiney highlights from being ironed to simulate "wear", sewn on too neatly to have been done by a squaddie but not well enough to have been done by a tailor - the badge looks raw edged?
Everything about it struck me as bad at first sight.
Wise with hindsight my comments may appear, but I'm reluctant to offer the dubious benefit of my experience to others about these things.
It's one thing to risk raining on someone else's parade when I may be wrong, quite another for me to look at items and think dont like the look of that, alarm bells, no way am I buying that.
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Leigh,
it was very cheap which in itself should have warned it was likely to be bad. Duff badges but apart from the iffy stamp which can be removed the hat itself is genuine, probably 1950's or thereabouts.
The seller gave a full refund and told me to keep it.
As always we live and learn in this hobby.