Post YOUR BEST FINDS of 2019 badges & militaria

[Luc]

Besides my sterling silver parachute regiment cap badge, that would be a printed RAChD shoulder title and a Gaunt late Jennens made Royal Warwickshire regt cap badge.

[Alan O]

A recent find as the RDY RFA has eluded me for some time.

[enfant perdus]

Nothing spectacular in the badge department, but I was pleased to add quite a few items to my 1908-1919 TF collection.

I did pick up this beauty https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=75252

And also this brute

[Lancer 17]

Originally Posted by mooke07

These are the hardest of the Squadron collar badges to find for the King’s Colonials. Pleased to have them in sunshine!

Cheers Dean

Hey Dean, that's a great pick up.

Merry Christmas mate.

Regards Phil.

[silverwash]

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[Frank Kelley]

Have you ever taken part in that particular event yourself?

Originally Posted by silverwash

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[ianh67military]

Secret Santa was very good to me this year. Received a lovely wrapped box with the badges in the picture as my present.
Still working to ID some of them (the alien? Predator), but others are so good I'm stunned. Never seen the RMP Close Protection Team badge before. The 777 Special Mission Wing is the Afghan version of our JSFAW or Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, and I suspect the version with the Uber badge may have a western influence, not to mention there's no foreign script and the little orange and white aeroplane may resemble a US cartoon.
Lots of acronyms on the badges too. JSOTF is Joint Secial Operations Task Force and thankfully the CJPOTF is spelled out as Combined Joint PsyOps Task Force.
Mixed in are challenge coins, rank and a beret badge

[mike_vee]

Originally Posted by ianh67military

(the alien? Predator)

Available from Amazon and numerous other sites.

[3battalion]

Not Commonwealth related but still British made.

My favourite find:

WW2 US 29th Rangers title.

Paul

[silverwash]

I have wore out a few tyres in this country, but not in Europe. Aaaaaagh !

[KLR]

Well, I have over 300 King's 'cap badges' but there are 20 odd badges that I know are out there somewhere.
This year has been average (ie not the rarest badge at a song) but I have had had a couple of variations (eg loops / sliders, minor details etc) but I did get a Lpl Irish variation which I didn't know about.
All in all I'm hoping that I might get lucky in the March 2020 .


Happy collecting one and all.
J

[marinus]

Hi everyone,

My favourite purchase of 2019 is this cast AAC cap badge with 3 lugs.

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Best wishes for you all from The Netherlands,

Marinus

[hagwalther]

Hi Guys,

This was my best purchase of 2019. It is a modern officers example of the North Irish Horse as ‘D’ Squadron of the Royal Yeomanry.

In 1993 the Army Dress Committee approved the change of badge colour from dull pewter to silver for 'D' Squadron. Sadly, in August of 2012, the badge was dropped from the inventory.

This example is a nickle silver badge with silver plate. The reverse, as you can see, is quite tarnished but the obverse has been fully frosted with polished highlights.

My example came in a draw string rifle cleaning flanellete (four by two) pouch with draw cord - possibly one put as side as a sample for a pattern card that never materialised?

The modern badge has an NSN of 8455-99-130-3944 and pattern No. of 30442. It is a very scarce/rare item and one of the nicest 'New Metal' badges you will see.

Regards,

Chris

[slick_mick]

Originally Posted by hagwalther

Hi Guys,

This was my best purchase of 2019. It is a modern officers example of the North Irish Horse as ‘D’ Squadron of the Royal Yeomanry.

In 1993 the Army Dress Committee approved the change of badge colour from dull pewter to silver for 'D' Squadron. Sadly, in August of 2012, the badge was dropped from the inventory.

This example is a nickle silver badge with silver plate. The reverse, as you can see, is quite tarnished but the obverse has been fully frosted with polished highlights.

My example came in a draw string rifle cleaning flanellete (four by two) pouch with draw cord - possibly one put as side as a sample for a pattern card that never materialised?

The modern badge has an NSN of 8455-99-130-3944 and pattern No. of 30442. It is a very scarce/rare item and one of the nicest 'New Metal' badges you will see.

Regards,

Chris

Very nice mate! One for my want list as well.

Merry Christmas

Mick

[Sonofacqms]

I think my best find were the badges, medals, paybooks and paperwork to two brothers who served in Italy and North West Europe, one or maybe both of them collected Nazi German badges as well.

More unusual was the fact that they were former music hall artistes and had Japanese names.

Rob