[Help] Identifying old badges/antiques etc.

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Apologies if this isn't allowed, I was going to put in the bear pit until I realised it had gone. I've started a new antiques/vintage business and wanted to ask for help in identifying items as I come across them that I haven't been able to so far. I know some on here enjoy a little challenge, some might say all of us do following the albion. Anyway first one is a simple old tin badge I thought it might have been political or travel related but can't find the same one online anywhere.

 

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Next is a little different. I think it's made of bone, a search said that it could be a "Flea Trap" whilst others say it's a needle case. The really strange thing is that if you look through the small hole at the top then you can just make out an old black and white picture of buildings which is contained within a tiny glass bead.

 

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nevergoagain said:

Apologies if this isn't allowed, I was going to put in the bear pit until I realised it had gone. I've started a new antiques/vintage business and wanted to ask for help in identifying items as I come across them that I haven't been able to so far. I know some on here enjoy a little challenge, some might say all of us do following the albion. Anyway first one is a simple old tin badge I thought it might have been political or travel related but can't find the same one online anywhere.

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Dads Army!

 

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nevergoagain said:

Apologies if this isn't allowed, I was going to put in the bear pit until I realised it had gone. I've started a new antiques/vintage business and wanted to ask for help in identifying items as I come across them that I haven't been able to so far. I know some on here enjoy a little challenge, some might say all of us do following the albion. Anyway first one is a simple old tin badge I thought it might have been political or travel related but can't find the same one online anywhere.

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Google Image Search reckons it's a Conservative party badge

 

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nevergoagain said:

Apologies if this isn't allowed, I was going to put in the bear pit until I realised it had gone. I've started a new antiques/vintage business and wanted to ask for help in identifying items as I come across them that I haven't been able to so far. I know some on here enjoy a little challenge, some might say all of us do following the albion. Anyway first one is a simple old tin badge I thought it might have been political or travel related but can't find the same one online anywhere.

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Oh! I've still got my Tiger Tims club badge from the 1950s. Am I rich?

 

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Tom Hark Preston Park said:

Google Image Search reckons it's a Conservative party badge

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Ta - I had been looking at that but couldn't find it. From eBay seems as though it's Scottish Conservatives Central Office. Cheers.

 

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Well that started well. Next is an old one. Looks to me to be LPC but no idea what it stands for.

 

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nevergoagain said:

Next is a little different. I think it's made of bone, a search said that it could be a "Flea Trap" whilst others say it's a needle case. The really strange thing is that if you look through the small hole at the top then you can just make out an old black and white picture of buildings which is contained within a tiny glass bead.

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Has it got a stanhope lens in the end? Anyway it's a bone needle case, Victorian in age.

 

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Has it got a stanhope lens in the end? Anyway it's a bone needle case, Victorian in age.

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Yes it has, many thanks. Another lesson learned. Much appreciated.

 

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Well that started well. Next is an old one. Looks to me to be LPC but no idea what it stands for.

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Money clip (for notes)? Monogram is a person initials

 

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DVMSA - Not a clue on this one. Progressus meaning go forward so possibly education, an old college or something.

 

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DVMSA - Not a clue on this one. Progressus meaning go forward so possibly education, an old college or something.

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Stab in the dark looked like a Y to me
Dominican Youth Movement South Africa.
Prob not but the SA struck me as poss South Africa

 

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nevergoagain said:

DVMSA - Not a clue on this one. Progressus meaning go forward so possibly education, an old college or something.

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Del Vista Math & Science Acadamy?

 

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One more FGBS. Only thing I could find that loosely matches was fellow of genealogical and biographical society but I don't think that's it.

 

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One more FGBS. Only thing I could find that loosely matches was fellow of genealogical and biographical society but I don't think that's it.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402556846277

 

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HNY all. A few more to look at today after picking up another batch. ADCCT supposedly is an acronym for how dolphins jump out of the water, not sure why it would be on a badge though.

 

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This one possibly police/military related as part of dress uniform given the slider.

 

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Don't think this is the newspaper or the record label so a bit stumped.

 

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Pretty sure this is a flying club but no idea which one and can't find online so far.

 

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This is a tiny one with a plough in a field in gold and white. Might just be a plain picture badge but can't find anything.

 

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