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Old 07-11-19, 12:41 PM
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Are these genuine, on the salesroom site ?
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Old 07-11-19, 04:32 PM
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They all look like junk to me.
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Old 07-11-19, 05:52 PM
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I nearly went for those too.
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Old 07-11-19, 09:11 PM
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It looks a lot like the continuous flow of SAS badges from the Goldsmith's from Stanstead.
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Old 07-11-19, 10:08 PM
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all to be avoided imo
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I nearly went for those too.
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they’re very bad copies , very hard to find but impossible as a lot as pictured there
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Old 08-11-19, 10:46 AM
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These have been floating in and out of ebay and auction houses for the last few months if not longer......
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I actually thought the top left was French SAS ?
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notice how fluffy they all look, a big giveaway
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I actually thought the top left was French SAS ?
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Nope 👎🏻 it’s a fake of standard 1944 pattern SAS cloth cap badge cut into a shape
There is a picture of a wartime French SAS bloke wearing the same pattern, shaped in the same way so the fakers have cottoned onto this
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I just browsed their listings of WW2 badges from the United Kingdom to find that it perfectly equals the eBay experience: many items are listed in the wrong category and there are loads of fakes not described as such.

I wonder what their added value is?
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