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LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS -ECON?
Hello all....been a long time since I posted or asked a question. I'm out of the loop and forgotten much I gleaned in the past since 2014 when I dropped out of the collecting lark...but back..
Quick question....can anyone confirm (Once and for all in my mind) whether the Lancashire Fusiliers had an econ?.......I did a search, but nothing came up. I saw something recently for sale, and it looked like an econ.... Cheers Simon. |
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No they did not.
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Hello Simon , great to see you back and posting , hope your well and still got the badge collecting bug!! In answer your question , no the Lancashire Fusiliers wasn’t one of the economy badges.
Gerard
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Always interested in buying cap badges to the Middlesex Regt-Hertfordshire Regt-The Rifle Brigade |
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Cheers chaps, yes Gerard, glad to be back and all's well mate........and I thought as much on the question..........I must try and get a full complete list of all econ's so I can try and get them all.......
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The infantry are all listed in one of my albums.
https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...p?albumid=2871 |
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Good to see you back Simon.
Andy
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Leave to carry on Sir please. |
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You will find all the information you want here
Bowsher & Linaker. Cap badges of the First World War: Part 1 –The Regular Forces; The all gilding metal badges, the unpierced badges and strengthened badges with a note on the badges of the war raised units. Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, Vol 66, no 262 (November 2015), 78-88. |
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Welcome back Simon, I learnt a lot from you when you were on the forum.
Regards Terry |
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Hi all....and thanks for the warm welcome back. Can't say I'll have the time I once had to be on as much, due to other hobbies taking my time....but glad to be back and popping by now and again.
Thanks for the link Alan, I'll download an image of the set for reference. It's surprising they didn't make an econ' of the Lancashire Fusiliers as it is bi-metal with a nickel part. I'm in the middle of a complete inventory of the WW1 collection, and weeding out some for sale etc. Need to pin down on the last few to get for a complete set. Anyway, thanks again All the best Simon. |
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You do encounter odd examples from time to time, but, certainly from my own point of view, after a brief glance, they all appear to be completely spurious.
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It was not the 2 part construction that was time consuming but overlaid parts that seems to be the main determinant. Presumably attaching a tagged scroll was much simpler than cuttting a brasing hole and having to brase a second part over the top. Likewise I imagine having a one piece badge cut out rather than a tagged scroll would be actually harder to do. Alan |
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Unlike WW2 which was about saving metal, WW1 economy was about speeding up production time. All nickel badges remained unchanged.
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the cost of labour has been outsripping the cost of meterial.
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