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Originally Posted by Seathanaich
As a member of the Army Reserve since 1989, I have never seen new collar badges packaged or stored individually. They come from the manufacturer in pairs. Old (1940s and earlier) Scully issued collar and cap badges are still seen in their original issued state, i.e. on those pieces of white paper with "Scully Ltd Montreal" printed on them. I've only ever seen the collar badge versions, in those cases, in pairs. It's possible that the RQs of regiments with left/right collars might keep the used ones in "Left" and "Right" bins, but I can't imagine that newly issued collars were ever that way.
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You should have been me trying to buy RCR mess dress collars from their kit shop a year or so ago. They indeed came packaged individually, not as pairs, in cello packs. First order came, with two left collars. I called and explained, and they sent me out another left collar. I now had three lefts, no right, so finally sent back the extra two and asked for one 'with the beaver looking the other way' and got a right collar.