CEF Yukon Draft Gold Pan Collars - hi-res image sought

[Rodd Hill]

I received an email at my work address from a lady in Dawson City, who is doing some work for the Yukon Archives about the Great War.

She saw an image of the famous gold pan collar on a social media post that Fort Rodd Hill NHS had made, and is looking for a publication-quality image. Our image was borrowed (with permission) from an auction, so the collar is gone, and the image resolution is too low.

Does anyone fortunate enough to have an original example of the collar have access to a hi-res image? For publication, I think this will be in the 1200 dpi range (I stand to be corrected by Clive Law on that, however).

I'm not sure what the res is on the image in the CEF section of the cap badge project (and even if it is high enough, she would need to seek permission).

I'm on the road for the next few days, but will respond if I can get a good wifi signal, or when I return home next week.

Thank you in advance.

[Rodd Hill]

Update to my own post.

The researcher has said that 400-600 dpi would work for her needs (a display rather than a published book or article).

She also mentioned this nugget (!):

"I also came across a reference in a January 1917 newspaper to badges (presumably extra ones) being sent to Dawson to be sold as fundraisers."

I am going to ask her to send me a pdf of the article in question, and will post it when I can.

[Bill A]

Thanks for that tid-bit. In researching the CEF issue of badges one can be surprised by some of the practices. It appears that private sector resources were used far more than one would think.

[8Hussar]

PM sent.
Gary

[8Hussar]

I thought that I should share with everyone a couple of pics of the collars. I had forgotten about this until I dug these out but, even though this was small unit, it appears that they produced 2 runs of these collars. I have a pair of the dreaded (to me at least) blade type and a single of the lugged variety. I can't perceive much of a difference between the two so it may have been the same company and when they realized that the blades broke with use, requested lugged collars.

[Bill A]

Thanks Garry. These collars are an excellent example of the innovative designs found for CEF badges. My example (I only have a single) is tang back with the non-precious nugget.

[Rodd Hill]

Yes, thanks again Gary for stepping forward. Your contact email sent to Patricia; the article is in a bound volume of the newspaper and can't be photocopied or scanned. I have asked her to try taking a smartphone image, which will be good enough for our purposes.

[Rodd Hill]

Here's the newspaper article from Dawson City, with reference to "extra badges."

[Bill A]

Not unusual that badges were used for patriotic purposes, but interesting that these were given out to certain benefactors. It also suggests that there were far more "collars" than cap badges. And it doesn't indicate if the collars were the gold nugget or the base metal pattern.