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2013 - What was your Best / Most Interesting Find 11 years 4 months ago #16574

QSAMIKE Topic Author Offline Senior Member Posts: 5888 Thank you received: 1984	Good Morning Everyone..... What was your best or most interesting find of 2013..... I have to say that the best is the following badge..... I had one over 25 years ago but had to sell it for obvious reasons and have been looking for one ever since...... SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTABULARY GALLANTRY BADGE Mike Life Member Past-President Calgary Military Historical Society O.M.R.S. 1591 Attachments:
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2013 - What was your Best / Most Interesting Find 11 years 4 months ago #16579

djb Offline Administrator Posts: 33129 Thank you received: 5091	Mike, 2013 must have been a very good year for your collection. You seem to have acquired a fabulous range of medals and artefacts this year. Dr David Biggins
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2013 - What was your Best / Most Interesting Find 11 years 4 months ago #16581

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Hello Mike,

A very good topic to post

I am always envious (in a nice way!) of your "treasure" finds and this piece was no exception.
I have been fortunate this year to add quite a lot to my ever growing collection so it has been difficult to pick favourites.
I think the most interesting find was a near complete set of The Times History of the Boer War (Link here) www.angloboerwar.com/forum/13-miscellany...mendations?start=186
They are superb reference books and I use them all the time, the added bonus was the price

The best find has to be this frame with miniature portraits I acquired of David.B. at the Wakefield fair in October, it has pride of place within my collection.Post 14556
Link here www.angloboerwar.com/forum/13-miscellany...field-on-sun-6th-oct

Cheers
Paul

QSAMIKE wrote: Good Morning Everyone.....

What was your best or most interesting find of 2013.....

I have to say that the best is the following badge..... I had one over 25 years ago but had to sell it for obvious reasons and have been looking for one ever since......

SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTABULARY GALLANTRY BADGE

Mike

"From a billow of the rolling veldt we looked back, and black columns were coming up behind us."

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2013 - What was your Best / Most Interesting Find 11 years 4 months ago #16592

Brianc Offline Senior Member Posts: 327 Thank you received: 50	Mike An amazing badge, never seen one before.Thanks for posting. Brian
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2013 - What was your Best / Most Interesting Find 11 years 4 months ago #16608

Brianc Offline Senior Member Posts: 327 Thank you received: 50	Guys My most interesting acquisition this year I suspect was a QSA to the Imperial Yeomanry and 1906 Natal pair to a Sgt in the Natal Telegraph Corps.Might not sound to exciting but the NTC were a rather small unit (40 odd) and is the first medal I have that is in some way related to my profession (telecoms). Regards Brian
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2013 - What was your Best / Most Interesting Find 11 years 4 months ago #16610

djb Offline Administrator Posts: 33129 Thank you received: 5091	Brian, That certainly ticks the most interesting box. I imagine telecoms in those days was quite a difficult business given the terrain, distances, newness of the technology ... Kind regards David Dr David Biggins
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