What can you tell me about this badge. It appears to have two, what I think are front stuffing rifles. Curious to know what club it came from.
And yes Toby, that is a ten cent piece with your face engraved on it.
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What can you tell me about this badge. It appears to have two, what I think are front stuffing rifles. Curious to know what club it came from.
And yes Toby, that is a ten cent piece with your face engraved on it.
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Toby is that you with your happy face on lol?????
Is the last letter a c or o?
CQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
He's been into @Happys meds :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SiB
gimme a couple mins
Righto, I'm not quite that colour but you were close @Spook
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maybe bulldogs would have been better with that hand signal :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
I am pleased it is mid afternoon...not sure I could have handled that picture early morningQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Spook I am only guessing here but it may not be related to a club and could possibly be military in origin. The last three letters MRC could be relative to a mounted rifle corps. Not sure what the first M would be. Could just be a province of a country (e.g. Manawatu).
AraghhQuote:
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... I was thinking a surfboard.Quote:
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I thought one M might be musket...if it was a 'mounted', wouldn't they have a horse in it as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition
I found the badge with two of these, so maybe military
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http://i.imgur.com/qpI5x2j.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Happy
Not many rootable in Matamata so not offended much Happy :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Happy
Not sure. It would not be easy on something that small. Where did you get it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
Maori mounted rifle corps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
I thought anyone with a tongue like that would get in anywhereQuote:
Originally Posted by Happy
Or if from Wairoa...Munted Maori Race CarsQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
If that was the case then my badge would only have a derringer on itQuote:
Originally Posted by Happy
I concur that it is a club, specifically a rifle club; hence the last two letters R.C. and the two crossed long arms. That leaves us with the M.M. and I doubt whether "Mounted" was one of the words as "mounted" when linked with the firearms and the military implies "mounted rifles" and as a military unit, they would not be a club. It appears that the long arms are muzzle loaders but again, I doubt if "muzzle" is either one of the words as it would be in conflict with the "rifle club"Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
I have googled NZ towns and perused A.W.Reid's, "Place Names Of New Zealand" but failed to find any locality which I could expect to be M.M.
Conclusion a rifle club badge, (as the OP described it as a badge") but not for a New Zealand club.
It would be interesting to see the reverse as there may be a makers name. What is puzzling is that the base circle, long arms and "foliage" appear to be a stamping, but the letters MMRC are an engraving. Possibly a modification of a military button that is a one off jewellers handiwork, not a badge maker's product, which is why I would like to see the reverse..
Mickey Mouse Rifle Club?
Sorry, I started Googling it and got side tracked on some cool stuff
Give me a moment and I will take photoQuote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper
Badge of the 9th (Wellington East Coast Rifles) Regiment. Regiment was renamed in 27 March 1914 as the 9 th (Hawkes Bay) Regiment. with headquarters at Napier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
As you have two, I suspect they are collar badges as opposed to a larger hat badge.
Stamped STGSIL...which I guess is sterling silver
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It is not missing a piece on the right...that is the pin pointing up and stuffing up the focus
should have looked like this
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Thanks for that information...badges are 45mm high X 40mm wideQuote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper
Well, definitely a badge and "sterling silver to boot."
"Assuming" they all belonged to the same person, then can we assume we have a WW 1 soldier from the 9th (Wellington East Coast Rifles) Regiment who continued his relationship with firearms postwar and joined a rifle club? I doubt that there would be any muzzle loading clubs post WW 1 as the breach loader had been around since 1890.
Over to the gang to see if they can come up with a locality, Lower North Island perhaps whose name could start with M.M.
But of course we don't know if he returned to his home town after WW 1 or if the badge is New Zealand.
As a long shot, try this...............
https://www.facebook.com/pages/MM-Ri...22754167752292
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Bugger me...........You have two hat badges :>)
http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-co...-686444074.htm
http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-co...-692506739.htm
To give you an idea of value.
Have you been digging people up again spook .. ??
Deep down they were nice peopleQuote:
Originally Posted by Happy
My Grandad was in WW1 I will pop down to the cemetry and ask him.:D
Kiwi Sapper...what can you tell me about this one
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Mongrel Mob Rifle Club
It may not be New Zealand...the leaves could suggest an overseas origin...the Manawatu Mounted Rifles were formed in 1891 which was a volunteer corp. There was however, a Canadian corp Manitoba Mounted Rifles Corp...Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
They're strange looking rifles?
New Zealand Engineer Volunteers in the realm of George the Fifth...1910 to 1936.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
Sorry, Spook, your post was directed at Kiwi Sapper...
