Sherwood Foresters-Do I or don't I?

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I see the usual four have had their say on the subject - or rather about me and not the subject of the thread. To return to the thread, all sealed patterns for the Sherwood Foresters from about 1885 are with the regimental museum and there are no such cards for other ranks cap badges, collar badges or helmet plate centres bearing King's crown and the scroll Derbyshire. To refer to me as a 'troll' simply because parties disagree with the information I provide lowers the intellectual level of the Forum. Most of you have little or no knowledge of the activity at MHS meetings in the 1970s in London, nor the circumstances surrounding the episode I related. How then can you have an opinion about it ? Whenever a badge is repaired with other than its original components then it carries some level of fakery. It is not the repair (or modification) that is in question - we all have badges repaired regularly - it is what is done with the item afterwards that matters. Badges sold as the genuine article when they have been repaired. So -produce evidence that a sealed pattern (or reference to a sealed pattern) exists and your argument is made. Otherwise, your statements are mere speculation. If you check with the regimental museum you will discover that what I have said is actual fact and not speculation. Oh yes, and a final point. Officers joining the regiment after the death of Victoria could easily have KC Derbyshire badges made as they were by private purchase and not an issued item. There is a parellel for this with the 1st & 2nd Life Guards officers badge discussed some weeks ago. May I suggest that the discussion surounds the thread and not a continuation of the acrimony that led to the unsuccessful attempt to have me leave the Forum. Thank you. David

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Originally Posted by Keith Blakeman

I'm sure Orasot & Magpie will back me up here as at a Bromley fair last year, there was an officers peaked cap with a bronze, voided, KC Derbyshire for £75. To say they were only made in silver, gilt and enamel is rubbish.

Keith - You are right, of course, but it was an officers' pattern (private purchase) badge not an issued item. At £75.00 that was a cheap cap - did you snap it up ? David

As an addendum let me say that there were silver gilt and enamel AND OSD bronze examples in Eric Dickinson's Sherwood Foresters collection as I recall - dispersed, of course, when he gave it up. D.

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[ Whenever a badge is repaired with other than its original components then it carries some level of fakery. ]

So someone for example, who owns a very expensive painting and then spends thousands of pounds on it's restoration, turns that painting into a fake ?? you do not even know the difference between restoration and manufacturing a fake.

Yes David, let us return to the thread, what was it about ?

DOH.

Ivan asked if it was worth repairing a badge, nothing more, you then, once again, stuck your oar in by getting personal with Andy and you stupidly, in my opinion, recited a ' prank ' you had pulled in the past, so again you hi-jacked a thread where members were praising my abilities !

Because you went OTT, you now have to try to restore your damaged reputation and charactor by blaming others for something that you instigated in the first place, you did after all suggest the poll ??

I have just read the Salamander posts and once again you attack members who disagree with yourself and then accuse them of only wanting to voice their own opinions, when will you get off your ' soap-box ' ?

Dave.

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I do believe that I have contributed all I can on this thread - I made my point in an early post directly to badger123 for which I was thanked. My opinion remains the same and I have nothing further to add. David