| Collecting has been slow. Since I last wrote almost a month and a half ago, I picked up some new style Polish submarine badges, a Colombian midget sub badge, Maryland Naval Militia US sub badges, a silver Turkish lapel pin and a few other odds and ends.
The new Polish badges (and a cloth counterpart) have been issued. They are still stamped and not as high a quality as many other military badges. While improved from the originals, they still are lacking in comparison to many other badges. They come in gold, silver and a subdued color rather than gold, silver and copper as the old style ones did. |
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| I have found a source for some inexpensive Imperial Russian reproduction badges. Let me know if you are interested.
Uri Dotan also had a misproduced run of gold old style Israeli badges with a star above the sub. The style is commonly called the old style senior badge which I have several spares to trade in silver or gold. Pete Pritchard's book says that this badge was intended as the original senior badge but was never issued. Reports from Israel are that it was not intended as such. Not sure what the reason is for the star for sure, but I have a few silver a couple of gold ones left. |
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| Here is a nice little link for Soviet and Russian badge collectors. This link gets you to a 42 page booklet on different badges from the USSR/Russia. I printed them on both a black and white and color printer for reference use.
http://world.devsys.net/rusnavy/ |
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| Hot news for you badge collectors! I have a latest news page for you to see. It includes a lot of insignia news since I haven't done a good update like this in a few months. Here are two of the highlights.
http://www.geocities.com/sub_insignia/latestnews.html
Bolivian sub badges! First it was Nigeria, now land locked Bolivia. Take a look at the left and see what they are supposed to look like.
After many months or rumor the new Polish badges have been issued. |
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| Another friend is Don Palen who sells submarine badges and other cool related stuff. ICBM is the company he runs, which stands for:
International Collectibles, Belts and Militaria
Lousy name but what the hell, he made a great acronym.
http://www.icbm.com |
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