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Somaliland Gendarmerie badges
New additions just arrived today: 1st and 2nd pattern Somaliland Gendarmerie headdress badges used under the British Military Administration 1941-1950.
Still rather stunned that I managed to get not one, but two. Graham
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I am looking to purchase items from the British Administration Police & Prison Services in Cyrenaica & Tripolitania; Eritrea & Ethiopia; Somalia (f. Italian Somaliland) & British Somaliland; & the Dodecanese: insignia, documents, photographs etc. |
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Interesting - the horns are just the tips of antelope horns?
(They remind me of the full sized dik-dik horns that were available illicitly as jewelry items in Kenya back in the 1970's). |
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They are horns from the Dik-dik antelope, described to me this morning as small, timid, and bottom of the food chain (not surprising if they keep turning them into badges/jewellery ). All the best Graham
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I am looking to purchase items from the British Administration Police & Prison Services in Cyrenaica & Tripolitania; Eritrea & Ethiopia; Somalia (f. Italian Somaliland) & British Somaliland; & the Dodecanese: insignia, documents, photographs etc. |
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The horns are about full sized then, if they're dik-dik.
I remember them being sold in Equator Village, Nanyuki, Kenya, with silver or copper caps fitted so that they could be worn as pendants. |
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