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Impressive. Like the fact it has New Zealand (four stars) inscribed on the base of the old mug. Love to understand the derivation of the mug in due course. Added this relic to the radar. Cheers Stephen

If you notice a RHA cap badge, pick it up and resell it to me.

For the period that Harmon Dyson served in, the RHA and RFA were part of the RA and after the Boer War, on both, Home Service Dress and Service Dress during the Great War, they just wore the brass RA cap badge.
They are very easy to obtain.

bricketts wrote: If you notice a RHA cap badge, pick it up and resell it to me.

Good Evening David......

Yes it is a very big and a very tiring event, infact I did not get a chance to get around it all.....

The attendance in the first day was 4890 and today appox. 2500 the total I will not know till the next CMHS meeting..... One statement was that if you spent a minuet or two at each sale and display table it would take you about 6 hours to go round the whole show and sale.....

I was disappointed in the amount and the price of Boer War items that were present, guess I have a bit of a reputation here for paying well for good items and all of a sudden every item is according to the dealers very good..... LOL

But I did see some other items that I was able to pick up quite reasonably that are not related to my collecting field......

A couple of 1910 Canadian Cap Badges, a Pre-WW1 Lord Strathcona Horse Cap Badge, an 1890's UP Pith Helmet to the N.W.M.P., two WW1 Trio's R.N.V.R. and R.N.R. to a Boy and a Deck Hand and a Lee-Enfield Rifle......

But the best item is as follows:

A Sea Gallantry Medal (Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry at Sea)

Named: JOSEPH TAYLOR of the FISHING BOAT “CONTENT” 13th JANUARY 1881

A photograph of Joseph Taylor

A Royal Humane Society Medal

Named: JOSEPH TAYLOR 13th JANUARY 1881

Along with these medals and photo were his Certificate of Competency as a Skipper and two copies of his Board of Trade Death Certificate……

I have since found out......

The Times dated Feb 23rd 1881

Royal Humane Society;

The Societies medallion has also been awarded to Joseph Taylor of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire for saving Alexander Noble at sea on the 13th Ult.

I have also thanks to BMF that the Sea Gallantry Register for pre-1887 has been lost....

Overall though it was a very very good show / sale and met many many frinds.....

Mike

djb wrote: Mike,

I see the show is a three day event ending tomorrow so there's plenty of time to seek out more bargains. The forecast attendance is 5,000 so its quite a big show.

Happy hunting
David

Mike

Congratulations on your finds. The Joseph Taylor collection alone would have been worth all the effort you put in to the show.

Regards
Brett

Hello Mike,
Well, you seem to to have a very broad range of interests, I did not have you down as a nautical type!
I agree with Brett, the group to Taylor is really very nice, but it was the fifth paragraph that I noticed, you bought a Lee Enfield?
What are you going to do with it, do you have issues with the local Bear poplulation?
Kind regards Frank