Can you imagine what is it?

[rubicon]

You certainly will never see again something like that in your life of badges collector!

By the way, have you identified the matter?

Nothing to win in fact? Sorry!

(You have already got 19 Gold medals at Beijing...)

Only the true story of this query!

[54Bty]

You been racking through the RAOC furnace?

[jim a]

Some kind of inkblot test to check our mental state.... I see a R.A. capbadge on the top.... the two on the right are Irish collars... I can see the woman and the harp on the middle one.... O.K. so i am crazy.... Jim

[Mike]

They're plastic badges that have been half burnt. Agree with jim, Royal Artillery (or maybe just a mixture of various plastic badge bits), 2 x royal ulster rifles, plus a couple of lincolnshires, stuck on a bigger blob of more melted plastic badges.


Tell me this is something contemporary from the normandy beaches ....not someone disposing of "worthless" plastic badges last weekend

[Mike]

I'm sure those plastic Lincs retail at about £40.....I've got one somewhere ...can't find it tonight though.

[ard-ri]

Well, that's a right bloody waste How'd you come by those?

[Alan O]

I see £200 worth of badges reduced to nothing.... This is the closest I can get to a sobbing icon

[jim a]

I've been waiting patiently for the rest of the story... what were the circumstances that brought these badges to this state.... house fire? some kid cooking their Dad's badges in the oven to surprise him? ...come on .... cough it up....

[rubicon]

Do not worry, It is not a crazy fellow who suddenly decided to burn all his plastic cap badges collection and replace them by a batch of metal fakes on evilbay!

A good friend of me who is used to excavate memorabilia from the earth with a metal detector found these plastic cap badges remains in a field which was occupied by troops from the 9th Infantry Brigade (3rd BID) on the evening of the D Day and the days after (Normandy Sword Beach area). For an unknown reason the plastic cap badges had been thrown in a fire with a mess of other items. Maybe by the Farmer who after the battle was off and the British troops had left, decided to clear up his field!

It is interesting to observe how the plastic cap badges obviously had not resisted in the fire but are still in good shape after 65 years in the earth!

Mike gave the good answer (Lincolnshire Regt and RUR plastic cap badges from Normandy) and he is the winner of the quiz!