“Insignificant” items in your collection you could never part with?

[Adrian Stevenson]

First badge I ever got. Brough home by a Polish Vet who was my mate's Dad.

Cheers, Ade.

[jimpy]

Mine would have to be, on a "technicality" because I was given them at the same time, my late grandfathers ID tags, cap badge and "medical grade card"

Regards etc

Ian D

AKA: Jimpy

[Eddie]

Very well put Glenn, it's interesting to think of what that badge saw, and you're right, it's a great symbol of the rise and fall of the fortunes of the Third Reich.

A simple party badge, yet one that was found in Stalingrad and is significant to me in that it epitomizes the inglorious failure of the National Socialist cause at what many would consider to be its high tide mark.

The myriad of fissures and patina post silent comment on the fate of a once proud owner and his ultimate doom in pursuit of furthering a faulty cause.

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[Ryan B]

The item that i would never give away is the ike jacket in the middle. It belonged to my great uncle and it is my most sedimentally prized item in my collection.
Ryan

[Walkwolf]

1" 'Aircraft Production' factory workers badge that was my fathers.

He built wing assemblies from wood for the DeHavilland Mosquito
and Avro Anson at Massey-Harris in Toronto during WWII.

[Ryan B]

That's Awesome Steve!
Ryan

[Walkwolf]

Thanks Ryan. It's one of my favorite pieces, and something I will
eventually pass down to a family member.........

[Ryan B]

That's What i might eventually do when or if i have kids.
Ryan

[GIZMO8Z]

Very nice, Ryan and Steve! This is exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about!

[Walkwolf]

A couple more that I found for next to nothing.........

SSVT button - unmarked late war - $8.00 (+tax)

WWI Canadian 60th and 87th Battalion reunion pins from 1936
by 'Birks' jewellers - $2.50 each (saw one on Ebay sell for $80.)
1/2" wide - screwbacks.