Plastic collar dogs

[Drmiggy]

Hi Forum. I have several plastic badges and have always wondered if there was ever such a thing as a plastic collar dog and if not, why not? Regards Ian

[leigh kitchen]

The RM had dark blue plastic collar badges, the RA had dark brown collar badges (which were also worn as FSC badges) as WWII economies.

[fougasse1940]

Collar badges were not supposed to be worn during the war, hence no plastic collar badges.

Rgds, Thomas

[Drmiggy]

Originally Posted by fougasse1940

Collar badges were not supposed to be worn during the war, hence no plastic collar badges.

Rgds, Thomas

Thanks Thomas, there’s always a reason. All the same a set would be good for the displays!!

[leigh kitchen]

Well, you can have a pair of RM collar dogs on display - literally thousands of them around, usually some on eBay, prices hoped for at about £80 a pair although most are half that or less. There was a pair buy it now for £3.50 a week or so ago.
The RS collar badge was presumably intended as an FSC / GSC badge rather than for wear as a collar.

[Phil2M]

High priced RM collars are chancers. Go to a fair and pick up a pair for a couple of quid.

[leigh kitchen]

Pair on the evil bay now, can buy for about £9.
(I am not related to eBay).

[magpie]

RA collar badge(grenade) for field service cap and officers service dress collar, 666,232 pairs made, RM collars 50,000

[Nozzer]

I did have a pair of Plastic 7th (New Forest Cadets) Royal Hampshire Regiment Collar Badges some time back, but I sold them with the rest of my plastic badge collection.

You can see some that sold a while back in this link (first four in the top row and the two on the left)

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...1-a47f01478a3d

They are quite a soft plastic.

[billy]

Cheapest I have seen and this recently was £0.50 each at Malvern, the dealer also goes to Stratford which will be October, needless to say he had stacks!

[Drmiggy]

I wish REME had produced a pair of plastic collar dogs.

[dubaiguy]

Unless I transposed the number incorrectly from an article on plastic badges, my notes show only 50,000 RM collars were produced. (It could have been pairs I guess). I picked mine up for a fiver some time ago, which seemed to me mega cheap compared to cap badge production of 150,000 of which I'd be lucky to get one for less than £60. That seemed a large price differential between cap and collars at the time.
Mark

[leigh kitchen]

The RM collar badges flooded on to the market years ago (80's, 90's?) presumably it was a case of thousands of them being found at the back of stores somewhere.
I've never seen any in other than what appears to be an unworn condition.

[dubaiguy]

That makes perfect sense. The collars I have are in an unworn condition, whereas the RM plastic cap I own has definitely been worn and seen service.
Mark

[Phil2M]

Originally Posted by dubaiguy

That makes perfect sense. The collars I have are in an unworn condition, whereas the RM plastic cap I own has definitely been worn and seen service.
Mark

Same here.