MP collector

Thank you Mervyn...I will give that search a try. The price on the badge in question is about 40-45 pounds....so it seems like a reasonable price and not over inflated, been caught on that a couple of times only to find out latter I should have paid less!..lol

Yes it's been a while since I've posted...I do vistit the pinned post on RCMP badges...great post that one

I recently had the opportunity to aquire a 1950's pattern (gold wire) RCMP officers hat badge but wouldn't mind some input if anyone knows about them.

I have only seen the badge in question in photos on a cap, and off course the one I may aquire, but I'll attach a pic showing 2 of the variations. Are these realy rare?..any Idea on the value?

Cheers, Ivan

Those are the sexiest boots, bar none, that I know of On a man, I mean.

I'm still trying to convince my wife to wear her's around the house !..

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Yea those logos are from "RCMP E Div. Pipe Band" they are out of Vancouver B.C. They were formed in April of 2006.

The ones I posted are how they look in parade, I am thinking the ones you have were not used in actual parade because they are incorrect, being that the logos run the wrong way and that if you hung them on the base drone of the pipe the logos would face the wrong way because the long side of the banner would be at the end. Maybe they were made as samples? or they are simply manufacturer error...I wonder if Emblazon Embroidery Co. made these? or maybe Gastaldo tailors.

As for the B.A B.....well it's not Alberta that's "K Div".......You could email them and ask . Very nice to have though

Here is an old banner that was used by the RCMP in times past by a band. Exactly how old is unknown. But this is different from the banner used currently. The current banner is attached to bagpipes and the background is a dark blue. The current banner's crest, while similar to the blue banner's crest pictured here, is turned 90 degrees.

The blue banner is 16 inches tall (41 cm) on the left side and 12 1/2 inches tall (32 cm) on the right side.

It is 17 inches wide (43 cm) from left center edge to the right center blue edge.

The reverse side of the blue banner is the red one pictured.

Need your help in identifying both the logo on the red banner, and what the letters mean. I think, but am unsure, that the logo represents British Columbia. If that's true, then I still don't know what the letters mean, nor why only 2 of the 3 letters have periods after them, making this say, B. AB.

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Hard to say whether 'unpopular' would translate into most of them being chucked in the closet or into the garbage. Obviously, the former would be the preferred state of affairs for a collector!

Yes for sure that would be!...one of our family friends and mentor is a retired RCMP A/Comm. and I had had asked him about the cap and he said ..."Yes at one time I had one of those horrible hats but its in hat heaven and got there soon after they changed to something wearable" .....So that sounds promising

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This is my newest cap in my collection. Manufactured by William Scully Ltd., The date tag reads 21-7-1974, it has the narrow twill stripe that matched the pants and a cloth covered visor and no mesh ventalation and instead had six eyelets on the underside for this.

These caps were not to popular with the force and were quickly replaced with a new pattern in 1975 which more or less resembled the 1966 pattern.

Very interesting variation of cap, I mentioned rare but maybe a better word would be obscure?....they seem hard to locate but I have not been collecting long enough to really know but just wanted to share my find.

They look a bit like a Hitler Youth cap with a RCMP badge on it ;-)

Yes your quite right! ....they are very similar, The ones the force used in the 1940s was apparently a commercially available hunting cap....Source : Dr.James J. Boulton

Nice cap & a good upload. I mean 'nice' as in 'nice find', of course. In fact its rather ugly, IMHO, and I can't imagine the Horsemen were rushing to put these on unless they were stationed in the Prairies in February or the Territories from October to April!

Hey thanks!..I think ....but yes not the nicecest looking thing, try to visualize a pilot wearing one with the headphones on; So they were limeted to Air div. members, northern posts with dog sled ect. and the last of them were issued to members serving in aiport disater units as well..nice thing about this cap is the condition is unused near mint...it basically sat in someones closet for the last 35+ years :D

Just wanted to share my latest find, a regulation RCMP ski cap from around 1974....hope this pic uploads ok as I've never done so on this site.

Very nice badge, that is a 1940's pattern badge introduced in 1943 to be more specific and was probably used well into the 1950's

Next up some very scarce badges, the official RCMP ID badges. This is the only badge that shows the number of the policeman in question and is not normally available to collectors.

This is a version for Inspectors.