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Another of yesterday's acquisitions, a Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps badge. Not exactly a front line combat unit, but tell that to thousands of soldiers wanting their paycheck on time! This one is marked "W. Scully" from Montreal and is one of the extremely few Canadian badges that are marked I have seen.

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Pat

...back of the 7th Hussars.

Here we have a Canadian 7th Hussars badge, with minor oxidation on the front. Good finish otherwise.

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Pat

..reverse of the Strathcona Horses.

Next of my antique show pick-ups is a nice ww2 Lord Strathcona's Horse Royal Canadians cap badge (this regiment is still active in Afghanistan right now). It is in excellent shape with great finish and I will be picking up a pin for the back tomorrow. Thanks for looking and any comments and help on the other questions mentioned previously are appreciated.

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Pat

..and the back of this fine BC Regiment's ww2 badge.

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Pat

Hello again,

Went to the Vernon fall antique show and found a few goodies yesterday. Mostly Canadian items there, with only my regular dealers with some German and other stuff, but nothing new. Did pick up some nice cap/collar badges though (for real cheap!). My fave of the bunch is another beauty Rocky Mountain Rangers, with the attached clip on the reverse. Excellent badge!

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Pat

...reverse of Canadian Fusiliers badge with markings.

Hello all,

Here is a cap badge I mistakenly thought was British but in fact I believe now is for the Canadian Fusiliers, City of London Regiment. It matches the one on canadiansoldiers.com but the British maker threw me off. I imagine it was made in Britain for the Canadian Regiment during wartime, or maybe I am mistaken on it being made in Britain as well. Any clarification of confirmation is helpful.

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Pat

Here's the link for obtaining service records:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogie...-909.007-e.html

Thanks Michael for that great link to the site, has all the information I was looking for. I will PM you with some more info.

I also have a couple more tidbits of info on my grandfather's time in the war. He sailed over on the ancient ship "Aquitania" which I believe was used in ww1, and he came back on the "Ils de France", a former luxury liner so he laughed at the difference in the two trips, as the Aquitania was less than "luxury" by quite a margin . His exact location for the main airbase they took over during the war was in Uterson, just outside of Hamburg, and another small town he couldn't remember before that. If anyone has any info on the RCAF in Hamburg-Uterson area in 1944-45 please share. Thanks again for looking,

Pat

Hello there,

Just an update, the last cap badge I posted (the supposed British Grenadiers) is actually the Canadian Fusiliers City of London badge, so I will post it on my Canadian thread.

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Pat

That does seem to make sense, as that's what I noticed also was the unusual way the medals were mounted, with different medals getting different amounts of "ribbon space." Seems to be a logical explanation in my view as it does all add up as a "vet tinkered bar". Let's see what Ed thinks

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Pat

Thanks for the clarifications gents, I just had such a good feeling on this one Well, I didn't pay much so I think I'll just keep it for display purposes.

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Pat

I have GOT to go to one of these European shows that Jan always gets to go to Nice early badges!

Pat

That's what I kind of figured, but thanks anyways

Pat

Well I guess the important thing is that they are all originals Larry, speaking from someone who had a lot of fakes in my early buys. It does really bother me that these "dealers" who claim to respect the history of their items will go and falsify patinas and groupings to make more profit. Root of all evil I guess Nice medals regardless of grouping classifications.

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Pat

Thanks Dave,

Maybe someone will be able to tell if it is Navy or not, too bad the leather was missing, we could have looked for the stamp! It is a neat buckle though, if only my grandpa could remember where (or more precisely, whom from) exactly he got this over there

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Pat

Thanks for the expertise gentlemen

I will definitely have to track down a copy soon of Frank's book and hopefully a few more good TR collecting books, as they are hard to come by unless you know the right people So both of my badges are of unknown or mysterious origin, all the better I say. I really like the stamped example, the details are extremely crisp and the eagles head and the grenade/bayo really stand out in real-life 3-D. And as for the Wernstein? made badge I hope maybe soon someone will uncover the mystery.

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Pat

Hi PeterJ,

I checked the reverses and the 2 Luftwaffe devices and the Polizei one are hollowback, and the rest are solid back. Hope that helps.

Pat

Final pic for today, the close-up of what I think is the Heer/Marine 4yr and 12yr service medals. Again, any confirmation on the ID's and any comments are welcome and a great help.

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Pat

Close-ups of the other LW Service Medal 4th class, the EK2 spange, and the 40 year Service Medal ribbon devices.

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Pat

Here is a close up of the unknown Polizei and the LW 3rd class service medal devices (any help on correct ID is great).

Thanks,

Pat

This is the best I can do for the backs, as they are very brittle and I don't want to remove them from the paper my Grandpa attached them to so long ago.

Pat

Interesting thoughts Matt,

I personally would place a higher value on original ribbon and would much rather have a dirty old original ribbon than a shiny newer made one. I guess some people are just more into the "aura" (sorry to get all hippy on you ) of having an all period "been there" piece rather than it being in mint shape with some replacement ribbon.

Here are some ribbon bar devices ((the smallest size, all are between 7mm (eagles) and 12mm (spange) tall)) I received from my grandfather last weekend from his personal souvenirs of the war. I will try to correctly ID them and if I make an error, please feel free to correct me. Starting with the top left corner I think this is a device for the Polizei Long Service award, but I am not sure on the class. It is magnetic and silvered.

The next device directly below the Polizei is what I think is the Luftwaffe Service Medal 3rd class for 12 years service (Dienstauszeichnungen Luftwaffe). It is also magnetic and gilted.

The ribbon bar device next to the LW in gold is the EK2 spange in tombak I believe as it is non-magnetic. Only slight silvering remains.

Next to the right of the spange is the Luftwaffe Service Medal 4th class for 4 years service I believe, magnetic and silvered.

Directly below the LW service 4th class is the Dienstauszeichnungen for 40 years service, also magnetic and gilted in excellent shape.

The bottom left corner has a Heer/Marine Service Medal ribbon device for an unknown amount and it is non-magnetic and gilt.

And finally the bottom right corner has the Heer/Marine Service Medal device for the 4th class level for 4 years service. This one is magnetic and has some corrosion.

Any further clarification of these devices is extremely welcome and thanks for looking. I will post some close ups for further ID purposes.

Cheers,

Pat

I looked at it under sunlight and it kind of has a green tinge to it, but like you said, VERY dark green. Would this be a Feldpolizei buckle then?

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Pat