Colin Davie

Cheers Chris will look into that C

I've never doubted the engraving myself, never even contemplated it being bogus, the engraving is nothing glamorous, or worth faking up. the guy I bought them off, I doubt he even knew about the engraving, or even looked at them ever, when I say antique shop, read more junk shop, they were in a big dish of buttons, other common mini singles and odds and sods... I paid I think ?5 for this pair and I don't think you'd get even the "A.W" letters alone hand engraved in that tiny size for ?5, just guessing of course, but I bet that engraving wasn't cheap to get done back then, if it was privately done, which now I know it was, A.W. must have been very proud of his/her service, as indeed he/she should. The guy in the shop must have got them for next to nothing . Great info I appreciate my little pair of minis a great deal more, and for that I am very grateful. C

Thanks for the info and comments C

No provinence, bought from a small Edinburgh antique shop about 15 years ago... but not really bothered about that, simply a nice little pair to add to my minis. I just wondered though if the naming of minis was the norm in SA. Cheers C

I've had these minis for a while, what is unusual (for me anyways) is they are named on the rim.. A.W. Scott.... is it common to find a name on minis from SA? Cheers C

Getting back to toilet humour.. don't forget the Funnel Web spider here in Oz which likes to live around the golden throne.. will drop you pretty quick in your hour of need. My father-in-law always liked to put on a posh voice and tell a story about some well to do radio news reader who was sacked for reading out his item wrongly... " A woman died today after being bitten on the funnel by a finger web spider" C

Gordon I'm curious, your new book project, you said it was for the surface fleet badges.. are you including these? After Flak88 left them out of his flak badge book, the poor things will be getting a bit of an identity crisis if you leave them out again. C

Thanks Gordon, now you mention it I'm sure you've made that point about the refit before, maybe in one of the model kit topics. Guess that solvs this one too Cheers for that. C

I'm fiddling around with a nice old B&W postcard of this ship, I want to use a high res toned copy for my display, can anyone help me with a recognition? Here is a low res copy of where I'm at just now. Any help much appreciated. C

1. Not so, other places, there is a "30" marked plastic badge found somewhere memory serves, and also other so called vet bringbacks. 2. No, unless they sent them back to Germany too 3. They have. I'm not insisting they are genuine, just addressing some of the points made so far, none of which changes my open mind on these things. I would also mention the period made plastic HJ membership badges. C

I don't know, but a couple of thoughts too. 1. Plastic today has a kinda tacky cheap monkey on it's back, but in the 30's and 40's it was funky and desireable. 2. Back then a lot of toys were made of thin metal, maybe in reality plastic was actually viewed as an upgrade rather than the downgrade we're seeing. Certainly many wives have taken that view over the years not mine though 3. On the lightweight idea put forward in jest... maybe not so daft to someone wearing all these badges, also they would'nt "clink" so much. Who knows Cheers C

No worries Gordon, here is a thread showing both. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26434 Different badges are found in different materials.. some (most) are a bit pliable and if you bent them over I don't think they would break, others are really hard, more like the bakelite type of material and I feel if you put the same strain on them they would snap. These wound badges are interesting, I've read about them a couple of times, if they were some sort of scam the perps certainly have'nt seemed to have taken it any further, which kind of (for me anyways) gives them a bit more credibility, these have been out of the ground quite a while now no? C

Given the multitude of event (Daybadges) and some HJ sports awards produced in plastic I would say he covers the subject very poorly. C Quick edit to mention the plastic ribbon bars too

As someone has mentioned in another thread there is a book about to be released relating to Medal Bars, I sincerely wish Tom all the best with that project, but interestingly I must confess seeing it advertised lately I felt a little bit sad it was'nt Rick releasing such a book, of course he does'nt have a monopoly on medal or ribbon bars, no one has that on anything, but if someone could have his/her name almost synonomous with an object it is surely Rick and such bars, be they medal or ribbon. I think the thing that has always impressed me the most with Rick, is knowing he could have - maybe even should have - put his knowledge towards making himself quite wealthy, or at least funding a collection from hell of his choosing... all he had to do was keep his knowledge - earned the hard way - to himself and pick up the anon. bars cheap, selling them on named for 200/300/400% profit sometimes even more with some of the names I've seen him troop out over the years. Instead he has always shared it free of charge and to the benefit of many. Some behind kissing?, I don't really think so, he has never named a medal/ribbon bar for me, doubt he ever will, not really my thing, just a simple observation of something special I've witnessed over the past 9 years or so I've seen Rick on the net. Bravo mate, you are a special human being and a credit to militaria collecting of the highest order. C

Here are 2 nice enamel pins which have a Tirol feel to them, D.J. Joe might remember them from German daggers forum, I posted them there around 2001. C

Hi Eric, there is no story, just a firm with an English name making badges in Germany before the war, in Oberstein. They are normally encountered on the back of the 1st Mai rally badge they made in 1937. C

You might not be getting quantity, but you sure are getting quality, that last badge is a beaut C edit to correct my naff spelling

Of the 2 badges I know of where the original recipient is known the plate holding the pin is long and a rectangle, not like this one at all. See Detlev Niemann's book for a good pic. Also I observed when I held a ruler along the top line of the "H" in Hitler the "D" of Jugend was still fully visable... i.e. the "D" is higher up the badge than the opposite "H". I myself would not buy the one shown, that's all I could say, originals are a rare badge and quite expensive. C

You wear a kilt to any party or nightclub and almost guaranteed you'll get asked by a dozen women (and a couple of starry eyed men ) what's worn under it... then it's down to your gift of the gab. When was the last time you got asked what you wear under your trousers? See we ain't as daft as we look C

There's guy on WAF with the name "Type99Sniper", I wondered about that name when I first saw it, guess now it makes sense Nice present! C

Tho that wee badge will now be worth more $$s than the medal C

For someone so keen on research you've let yourself down here... everyone in Scotland knows that wee Jock used to take the top part of the seat off his bike before going anywhere, always prefered the bumpy roads as well C

Always possible with these little pins that it might be war effort donation pins as well (WHW) so you can at least bear that in mind. An example below (from 1936 onwards), don't have time to search through all of the WHW books. C

Again with cap tally. C