ARP badges

[Sonofacqms]

I was looking in an antique centre today and was attracted to a small tin of ARP badges, many with various London location scrolls, also the price of £5.00 each looked good, then I found three with "Straits Settlements" on the scroll, then put the tin back.

All looked of very recent manufacture, but I was not aware that these were being faked to that degree, these are the first I have seen, but give them a bit of dirt and wear and I am sure they will command more than £5.00 each.

Rob

[slick_mick]

Originally Posted by Sonofacqms

I was looking in an antique centre today and was attracted to a small tin of ARP badges, many with various London location scrolls, also the price of £5.00 each looked good, then I found three with "Straits Settlements" on the scroll, then put the tin back.

All looked of very recent manufacture, but I was not aware that these were being faked to that degree, these are the first I have seen, but give them a bit of dirt and wear and I am sure they will command more than £5.00 each.

Rob

The Straits Settlements ones fetch good coin as they are quite rare. There was one recently sold on ebay by Barry Renshaw.

Mick

[mike_vee]

There were overseas badges ; Malta , Hong Kong , Kenya and the Straits Settlements.

https://www.ww2civildefence.co.uk/bl...-the-arp-badge

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[slick_mick]

Originally Posted by mike_vee

There were overseas badges ; Malta , Hong Kong , Kenya and the Straits Settlements.

https://www.ww2civildefence.co.uk/bl...-the-arp-badge

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On a side note, my grandfather was involved in ARP duties in Hong Kong during WW2 as a member of the HK Police. He was wounded by Japanese artillery whilst doing ARP duties.

Mick

[Sonofacqms]

Well chaps, having looked at mike vee's link I think I was 100% correct, some of the badges named seem to be in the tin and Straits Settlements ARP is definitely mentioned, my thoughts have been substantiated . . !

Thanks Mike.

Rob

[KOMalta]

Originally Posted by mike_vee

There were overseas badges ; Malta , Hong Kong , Kenya and the Straits Settlements.

https://www.ww2civildefence.co.uk/bl...-the-arp-badge

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Read the article with much interest. I had recently came across this piece. Besides the obvious, size compared to the cap badge was smaller. Now I know for a fact that collar badges with Malta scroll did exist, as I have seen them at the War Museum here in Malta (Image with Blue Background). Malta was starved during WWII, not with just food, but also material. Known King's Own Malta Regiment and Royal Malta Artillery cap badges were improvised and casted at the Dockyard. This is a known and studied fact. But casted with a slider would have never made sense for the purpose of a collar badge I would think. Having said that white metal cap badges were produced late during the war!


Vincent