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Are these any good?
Hi guys
Picked this lot up recently with a few other Air Force type items. These don't fit the collecting field so not sure on them. Just interested to know if the 2 patches are any good and what period would they be? It's a shame the RFC has lost a prong and the little silver para wing is nice. Thanks in advance BC |
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And the back
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I don't see anything wrong with the OSD cap badge, can't comment on other items.
Cheers Tony.
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The item with a goldfish on it is the "Goldfish Club" - for aircrew who had "come down in the drink".
http://www.thegoldfishclub.co.uk/ind...e-goldfishclub No idea if it is genuine, but does it look to be made from a recycled suit? "With P B Cow`s financial backing the club was named the Goldfish Club – Gold for the value of life and fish for the sea – and a badge was designed showing a white winged Goldfish flying above two symbolic blue waves. Each member received a heat sealed membership card and an embroidered badge. Due to wartime regulations the production of wire badges was prohibited. But an appeal in the Daily Express by William Hickey produced many redundant evening suits from which the cloth badges were produced. The badge was worn by the Navy on their Mae West`s and in the RAF it was worn under the left hand battle dress pocket due to RAF regulations !"
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Having now looked in detail at the "Goldfish Club" site that I posted above I can say that it is possible to buy a cloth badge for £5.
http://www.thegoldfishclub.co.uk/ind...dfishclub-shop No doubt it will be easy to distinguish it from a wartime example. However, I would not put it past certain dealers to get hold of a modern badge, age it, and sell it on as a wartime example.
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The Goldfish badge is very repro I'm afraid, produced by The American Badge Co. A few years ago.
The Engineer wing is modern manufacture although it's not been issued for years. Hard to say if it's an issue badge from 20 years or so ago or a repro. |
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Indeed, a good original officers cap badge.
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