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A rare badge on ebay
Just to share.
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Who is the seller? The third picture looks like a dealer that has put up a lot of good stuff recently but it seems they have nothing listed at the moment.
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£2200/2300 it fetched, can't remember which price off the top of my head
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Found it - eventually !
Closing price was £2730 - link to the listing is here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WW2-Polit...-/403292895951
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Does anyone know how many staff would have been in the PWE?
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Probably not very many wearing uniform as the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a secret department, when dealing with the outside world it used the cover name Political Intelligence Department (PID).
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Thanks Tim
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Note that there’s another of the same badge on that blanket
Not sure if the other variant is the same however.
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Does anyone know the significance of the lapwing in the badge?. I am assuming that it has to do with the lapwing being also known as the peewit but that's just a guess, PWE and all that.
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Yes, the Lapwing is also known as the Peewit or Pewee, so there's a play on "PWE" - Political Warfare Executive.
As I recall Len Coleman mentions it in his "Some Talk of Private Armies". |
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Thanks Leigh, it's nice to know some of my little grey cells are still intact.
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All the best Mike |
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Yes, I don't know where on earth "Coleman" came from , I was thinking "Whittaker".
Brain and fingers don't co-ordinate well at 5 in the morning. |
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Evidence of the sign worn on BD - left arm only - can be seen at
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...ttend-lectures A wartime OSS film taken in Egypt. Jon |
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