Like I said these types of insignia have a value for the people who wore them but thinking that these types of insignia be it a plastic badge someone made 20 of or a modern barracks/unofficial patch etc are worth any real $$$ is in my opinion is a false economy. A current/modern patch can be embroidered in bulk tomorrow and a plastic badge can these days be printed in someone's back yard. That is why anyone who spends serious money on these types of items will eventually lose their shirt because the first time a piece of one of only "20" QMI plastic sells at public auction for $300 they will appear all over the market in short order! You only have to look at what the European's have started to do to earlier badges, if a plastic badge was worth big money they would be all over Ebay tomorrow. Again just my personal view.
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