Cap badges and stick pins

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  1. Barn Owl

    Barn Owl Well-Known Member

    Picked these up during the last few weeks. Any idea what they are? The small triangle pin is marked E 84. No makers marks or hallmarks.
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  2. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    The one with the axes looks like U.K. Fusiliers, well the main item with the flames coming out of it does, not sure about the axes, could be another branch of the Army.
     
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    nice finds......the rear posts on the large ones seem to point to them being authentic worn items.............. or not ???
     
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  4. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Ordnance? Without the canons:

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  5. Barn Owl

    Barn Owl Well-Known Member

    Thank you :) I'll do more research into them.

    Thanks! That was what I was hoping; the small triangle one is also pretty crudely made, making me hope it's older.

    I'll look into it, thanks! :)
     
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  6. springfld.arsenal

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  8. Barn Owl

    Barn Owl Well-Known Member

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    Barn Owl Well-Known Member

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  10. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    it's actually a man's...
    I forgot the circumference of women's heads...:couchpotato:
     
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  11. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    nearest I come with the axes is Italian vigili del fuoco
     
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  12. springfld.arsenal

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    The only insignia I found with both crossed axes and the flaming bomb was in link I posted above, perhaps yet unnoticed due to linkophobia.

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    While this particular badge was expressly for the first regiment, it isn’t difficult to imagine a simpler badge like the brass one posted, as a cap or collar insignia for any French Foreign Legion Pioneer.
     
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  13. Barn Owl

    Barn Owl Well-Known Member

    Do you think it's a hat badge or a collar badge?

    I looked at it, then I googled the French Foreign Legion Pioneers to see if I could find examples of the brass badge, which I wasn't able to... So I was wondering if it might have come from a related organization.
     
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  14. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    [​IMG]
    axehandles crossing in the middle of the "bomb".
     
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  15. springfld.arsenal

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    Maybe French Foreign Legion Pioneer Fire Fighters. (Joking!)
     
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  16. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    legion flame has always seven tips.
     
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  17. RinTinTin

    RinTinTin Well-Known Member

    The two pins on the left might be French. But that cross that can also be found outside France.

    Cross of Lorraine
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Lorraine

    In France, the Cross of Lorraine was the symbol of Free France during World War II, the liberation of France from Nazi Germany, and Gaullism and includes several variations of a two barred cross.

    The Cross was displayed on the flags of Free French warships, and the fuselages of Free French aircraft. The medal of the Order of Liberation bears the Cross of Lorraine.

    De Gaulle himself is memorialised by a 43-metre (141 ft) high Cross of Lorraine in his home village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises. The Cross of Lorraine was later adopted by Gaullist political groups such as the Rally for the Republic.
     
  18. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    I have never seen a French pin or medal with a German Eichenlaub/ feuille de chêne/ oak leaf cluster
     
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