Avitas

I bought this Deutsche Volksplege Medal about a year ago and am satisfied with its authenticity, any comments on this one?

Thanks,

Pat

and reverse of the above Mutterkreuz in bronze.

Pat

To complete my semi beat up set is the bronze.

Thanks for any comments,

Pat

..the reverse of the belt buckle.

Pat

Here is one of my personal faves I picked up recently, a British Columbia Dragoons belt buckle. I have the set of cap badges for this as well so now I just need a nice BC Dragoons uniform to outfit all this stuff on!

Pat

and a Liverpool Scottish "The Kings" badge. Any comments and additional points are great!

Pat

OK, a couple more I found. First up a 48th Highlanders cap badge.

Pat

and a King's Own Scottish Borderers badge (again, if I have got the country wrong please let me know, but I think this is from the British Isles!)

Pat

Not sure on this regiment, but from an Egyptian unit..

Pat

and finally for today a Princess Louise Dragoons Guards badge (pretty sure its Canadian, correct me if I'm wrong on this one!)

Pat

Well here I am back with a new computer and I picked up a few British ww2 era cap badges to show. Here is an Intelligence Corps cap badge to start with.

Pat

Going back to ww1 here, a Canadian Infantry Corps cap badge, and a nice one at that!

Pat

and a Le Regiment de Hull cap badge..

Pat

..another Canadian Women's Army Corps badge..

and a Canadian Provost Corps,

Pat

I got lots of these that I want to show for Canadian cap badge examples here that I haven't been able to post, so here's some more!

The Royal Canadian Dragoons...

and a Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps cap badge...

and a Royal Canadian Army Cadets wartime badge in excellent shape!

and another highlander badge, the Gordon Highlanders, like this one myself.

Here is a really nice one, the Royal Highland Regt of Canada, the "Black Watch". Any comments on any of these badges are welcome!

Pat

next one, an Ontario Regiment cap badge (again, all of these I will be posting are wartime/King's crown era badges.)

Pat

I have a few updates for this thread now that I have a computer that can keep up with the site!

Here is a nice ww2 Irish Regt. of Canada badge.

Pat

...and the close up details.

Thanks,

Pat

Thanks for the detailed info! On a related note, would it be better to store this in a sealed airtight baggie or a loose box then? One would assume an airtight bag would be the best choice to minimize oxygen exposure. Anyways, here is the best scan I could come up with with my crappy new HP scanner (it can't manage to focus anything unless it is 100% flat!, unlike my old Agfa) of the Narvik shield (came in today) and a couple better pics of the details. Any ideas on a maker?

Thanks again for all the help, I will look more into the vasoline idea.

Pat

Avitas,

That one there you posted was from Barry Turk @ www.emedals.ca and it's a good one

He is a great guy. His staff is easy to work with and they have some nice items.

I purchased my entire shield collection from Barry.

My recommendation would be to do the vasaline treatment to your shield about every 6 months to help keep the corrosion and zinc pest from setting in further.

Congrats on your shield.

Regards,

2dresq

Justin G.

Thanks Justin and yes Barry is a great guy and has some amazing stuff that I'll never be able to afford! I've bought a few items off him and have been very satisfied. So for the vasoline treatment do you just rub a small amount of it on the corroded parts then? I have never done this so any tips are welcome.

Later,

Pat